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...large-scale battles and much hacking and hewing, as well as some distracting side effects. When the crowds are especially dense or the action swift, the superimposed cartoon fades to a sketchy approximation. The live actor-models flicker like ghosts behind a thin wash of color, and the viewer feels an urge to apply a damp cloth and see what is really going...
...philosophy that sustains the creatures throughout is mildly liberal and humane (somewhere between Bertrand Russell and Hubert Humphrey), and there are moments when one feels that perhaps the whole thing is just another cleverly put ecological tract. What sustains the viewer, however, besides the sound plotting, is the stylishness of the piece. Except for an unfortunate arty prologue with featureless backgrounds and stylized bunnies, Watership Down is made in the classic manner of the old, excellent Disney films. The background painting is rich and highly detailed, and this allows the multiplane camera to exploit its ability to create the illusion...
...world of bus signs and billboards and bean suppers in Everett and ads in the Sudbury Town Crier-Fence Viewer turns on its bumper-stickered axis for the final time. Welcome to the now-predictable world of county races and the non-predictable ways it came...
...story that have prompted some criticism of the film, objections that are justified to a certain extent. In all fairness to the movie, however, the relationship between Erich and Billy is very subtly implied, and the need to make it explicit does not seem an obvious one. The discerning viewer will draw the appropriate inference; in any case, the importance of their relationship does not lie in the sexual act, but in the life-giving emotional support Erich lent Billy when he most needed...
There is a raw, uncontrolled quality about Midnight Express that accounts for the film's magnetic pull on the viewer. The violence is graphic and uncompromising, mindful of no boundaries imposed by discretion or "good taste," whatever that might be. Brad Davis' performance as Billy reinforces this no-holds-barred quality, and in virtually any type of movie, the acting job he delivers might have served as an embarassing distraction. But Midnight Express was just the right film for a newcomer like Davis willing to throw himself into the lead role with precisely that lack of restraint. His grimaces, anguished...