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...STUNT MAN Directed by Richard Rush Screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus...
...best thing about this film is that it has the courage of its own pretentiousness. This may seem dim praise, but it is not. The Stunt Man is not so much sophomoric, with its implications of false sophistication, as it is freshmanic: the movie delights in the play of ideas and in its own unsuspected ability to play fast, loose and funny with them. It is refreshing to see a movie that sends ideas instead of autos crashing headon...
...plain that soapboxes would not be permitted at their party. When an Italian gay rights activist tried to stage a demonstration in Red Square, he was quickly overwhelmed by uniformed police and plainclothes KGB officers. The police also closed in on a group of journalists who were covering the stunt. U.P.I. Bureau Chief John Moody was kneed in the groin and detained for 25 minutes, two French photographers were roughed up and forced to expose their film and an NBC cameraman had his film confiscated...
...lesbian. The riposte to this rich variety of nonsense is for Lange, Curtin and Saint James to stage a heist. They decide to make off with the day's receipts of a shopping center, which are being displayed in a huge plastic ball as a promotional stunt. There are reasonable suspense and good comic effect as the three nice women stumblingly rehearse, plan and execute the robbery. The strategy is to attack while witnesses are distracted by a goofy historical pageant about Oregon, where - refreshingly - the film was shot. The high point of that history, the socko ending toward...
...terrorize the few survivors of an atomic apocalypse, and who are tracked down and slaughtered by a draconian police force. As a story, the film makes for overwrought, even repellent melodrama. The movie has little feeling for, or interest in, the human idiosyncrasies of its characters; they are glorified stunt men, stock figures in stock cars. But Mad Max is not a "people picture." It is an action movie whose subject is machines, and the sophisticated killing ma chine man could become. The hardware is the star here: the souped-up Chevies and demon motorcycles, captured by Miller...