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...does FBI agent Anderson (Gene Hackman) like baseball? Because, as he keeps telling people in Mississippi Burning, "it's the only game where a black man can wave a stick at a white man without starting a riot...
...Hackman is probably the subtlest screen player of his generation. He is a genius at hiding his true feelings under humor, letting them show with a seemingly unconscious flicker of expression or an unfinished gesture. Dafoe stands up to him with the kind of flat-voiced certainty mastered only by men of few, but unshakable, principles. Though each learns something from the other, their relationship retains its pure scratchiness from beginning to end. These guys are never going to be buddies...
Burnished by Gene Hackman' s strong acting, Mississippi Burning recalls the past -- violence in the civil rights movement -- to inform the spirit of today, and perhaps tomorrow...
...elegant assurance of Allen's transitions in time and the perfection of an ensemble cast (special mention to Gene Hackman as the rejected lover) are admirable. They enrich the hypnotic power with which a complex movie explores that inevitable mid-life moment when we must count the costs not of our incautions, but of our cautions...
...Naval Attraction." In the summer-fall hit No Way Out, an officer in U.S. naval intelligence (Kevin Costner) has a dangerous love affair with the Washington mistress (Sean Young) of the Secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman). It begins as hot reckless sex in the back seat of a limo and climaxes in death and betrayal. No Way Out keeps escalating past passion into mortal power struggles, in which the guilty are forever eliminating the slightly less guilty. But the film rescores, in melodrama's high pitch, the lament of any bright woman with a healthy carnal appetite...