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Rachel E. Silverman '96 applauded the on-screen performances. "Samuel L. Jackson and Harvey Keitel are the best actors around," he said...
...been mute since the age of six and for whom the piano is her only voice, is devastated by its loss. She turns to George Baines (Harvey Keitel), an illiterate neighbor of theirs who has "gone native." Baines eventually makes a deal with Stewart, trading the piano for a piece of land. As part of the deal, Ada is forced to give Baines lessons. He's not interested in learning to play, and so he offers to give Ada back her piano if she allows him to do certain things while she plays, one key for every lesson...
Though his New Zealand accent wobbles a bit at times, Harvey Keitel is, as usual, excellent. He makes a potentially unlikable and thorny man human and sympathetic. Sam Neill, who originally wanted to play the part of Baines, is particularly fine in the role of Stewart, a good man who loses his head because of jealousy and passion. Here Neill has a role meatier than that of the paleontologist he played in "Jurassic Park." He lives up to the possibilities of the role...
...Harvey Keitel sizzles as the judicous Mr. White. His words of wisdom for the rookie criminal Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) on dealing with a store manager during a robbery are; "If you wanna know something that he won't tell you, cut off one of his fingers. The little one. Then you tell 'im his thumb's next. After that he'll tell ya if he wears ladies' underwear. I'm hungry. Let's get a taco." But don't let these words deceive you; Keitel portrays the struggle between Mr. White's hardened exterior and soft-hearted conscience brilliantly...
...kitschy and is certainly not worth her laughable performance. In her big scene in which she must grieve both the death of her father and her marriage, Ferrara must work Madlyn into a rage of frustration and abandonment. Instead she stands limp and half-heartedly bounces objects off Keitel. The audience can do nothing but laugh when she delivers her lines, addressing her husband quite unbelievably as "man". "Dangerous Game" has once again jeopardized Madonna's chance at movie stardom. Add this latest bomb to the cluttered video shelves somewhere between "Body of Evidence" and "Shanghai Surprise...