So much average

A different way of telling a story

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Havent heard music as wonderful as this in a film for a long, long time. Stallone as always makes a great performance as does Madeleine Stowe. Some great comedy lines, average script and everything very reminiscent of those old 80's romance films like Romancing The Stone - Such a treat to watch something that is not full of gratuitous nudity, overt sex and foul language.Is it just me or are you sick of hearing the "F" word every five minutes in a film - its so refreshing.I personally go to the cinema to be taken away to a different world away from the foul language and reality of modern life and this one will give you some real joy and peace with its superb music and gentle humour.Top notch film from Stallone p Dont listen to the critics - this one is a stormer. Anothony Quinns last film as well as he goes to meet the other giants of cinema like Charlton Heston, Charles Bronson, Yul Brynner et al - R.I.P.

In my book a 1 star is for the worst of the worst - like "The Room". This isn't quite that bad. But it's pretty bad.The thing is, it could have been good. If it had made up its mind to either be a comedy or a drama. But trying to be both it fails miserably. There's no laugh...at all. Any attempt at comedy ranges from flat to annoying. If that isn't bad enough, they attempt to recycle the dumb jokes that didn't work the first time. There's an on going schtick about Frankie's cologne, Brut. Like anyone besides Joe Namath ever really wore that stuff. The joke never works. Not the first time. Not the third time.Frankie has to get rid of a body. We don't know if the body is dead or just unconscious. Until the body farts...three separate times. "Frankie, did you say something?" Yeah, hilarious.The saddest part of all this is that the director, Martyn Burke, wrote Top Secret, one of the funniest movies of all time. How he could miss so badly with this movie I'll never understand.Now, if this had been written as a drama, with action scenes, a little love story, not too over the top, it might have worked. It could have been good. As long as Madeleine Stowe's character was maybe only slightly annoying instead of completely over the top. Why Frankie hasn't shot her yet I have no idea.The writing is atrocious. Nothing makes any sense. Angelo thinks something might happen to him, but Frankie leaves him unprotected in the restaurant to go deal with a parking ticket. Jennifer lives in this enormous mansion that has no security system whatsoever. Bad guys and ex-husbands come and go at all hours of the night. She's "terrified" but goes out at night to the guest house to have a conversation about nothing.It's not like Stallone and Stowe have no chemistry together, but it isn't allowed to develop because her character is so annoying. I'm 48 minutes into it hoping against hope that it will get better.

This is the last film of actor Anthony Quinn after a career of 60 years in cinema with more than 150 appearances and half dozen Academy awards. He holds the record of longest active professional life in Hollywood though somebody lived longer but were not active. Paradoxically, I myself consider Anthony Quinn a man with little cinematographic talent and yet he participate in so many films that I love - favorite movies. This is rare phenomenon in art, showing how film industry acts as a monopoly where success is in no way dependent on a single person but is aggregate (or macro) from the efforts of a collective. That's nothing new under the sun.I want to correspond here my overall impressions from actor Anthony Quinn and not about the real life man since there are other people to judge him. Quinn wrote himself a biography in 1972 which shows that obviously he wasn't well aware of his future. But he always had around him a staff of fully functional intelligent men that were ready to delve with his minutest problems fee-for-service. The sometimes sickening and bad image on screen is always compensated with next following that looks good and convincing. That means that there were always paid people around to heed. Because Anthony Quinn had so many hidden personalities that were product of nearby consultants I see that man not as a unity but as 10 people playing simultaneously. As if I see a Turkish sultan carried over by his servants and yet he is impressive and untouchable.To tell the truth since I consider him a bad actor it remains consequently that only his remarkable physique carried his performances for so long. Evidently that physique of a heavyweight boxing champion was enough argument for producers and directors to employ him. This seems to have its logical explanation since Hollywood didn't have the habit to recruit Black Americans in leading roles until mid 1950s. And from anthropological view of point Negroes in America are the largest reservoir of physical sturdiness and fitness. I am not talking here about issues of racism and things before the great Civil War which seem to be still alive in America and abroad.I want to pool out for our host here some of my best choices from Anthony Quinn's long film list - certainly, "25th Hour" (1967), "Lion of the Desert" (1981), "High Risk" (1981), "Revenge" (1990) but also other movies that I watched as a youth and liked very much. As conclusion, I want to say to the people reading here never to compare outwardly Anthony Quinn with his corollary Marlon Brando - those are two separate entities staying on opposite poles of the human continuum. Thank You!

Avenging Angelo was dedicated to Anthony Quinn, whose character was killed off in a vendetta for the murder a rival. His daughter, Jennifer was never told he was her father. Her "father and mother" were to raise Jennifer as their own child for her protection. Frankie was her body guard much of her life. In the process he fell in love with her. There was definite chemistry between Jennifer and Frankie. The movie is fairly predictable. One of the silliest moments was when Jennifer decided to "wax" the man who was trying to have her killed. Being at death's door, Jennifer succeeded when she "married him to death". The movie had romance and laughter, and it was a lot of fun if you could overlook the "whacking" of several people who were out to get Jennifer.