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When next we see our villain, he is confined to the institution, where he is slowly going crazy, not to mention acquiring an unkempt personal appearance. There are several tearful scenes with his parents (who are square and lawyers, but much easier to deal with than Brooke's elders). Finally, after he looks in the mirror and sees Brooke staring back, he manages to talk his way out of the giggle house. Another natural ending. But no; he is obsessed still by Ms. Shields, and sets out across the country to find...
What Carpenter has done is to create a complicated and silly story where a simple and effective plot would have worked better. The appeal of his fantastically successful Halloween lay in the unadorned menace of the villain; New York could have served a similar function. It is a city of extremes, both good and bad, and Carpenter, might have seized its evil and wrung from it a portrait of malignancy out of control. But he didn't. He didn't even try. It wouldn't have been that difficult--all he had to do was ride the subways...
...breathing sequences; Robbins knows what the kids have come to see. With theater-rattling thumps, our dragon stalks his turf, and like a B-52 with scales, swoops over hapless victims, booming displeasure with the human race. Great care has been taken to construct a plausible lair for the villain, a spooky underground grotto containing an Olympic-sized pool complete with burning water and oozing ceiling. The little baby dragons, who display a revolting appetite for freshly killed princess and give Galen some initial resistance, may provoke more than a few people to go home and flush their salamanders...
...manner and methods of Bond villains usually reveal to a considerable degree the tenor of the times in which the films are made. Consider: The last three Bonds--The Spy Who Loved Me. Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only--have centered on weapons and the control thereof. There is usually a swarthy middleman--in the case of Eyes, a Greek smuggler--who tries the sell the technology to the Soviets. Thus, the growth in international military tension in recent years. In contrast, The Man With the Golden Gun, made in the mid-70s, was concerned with energy technology. Perhaps...
...lady the late director Howard Hawks always included among the boys in his action films. At one juncture it appears that Marion, played by the lovely Karen Allen, 29, may have been killed in an explosion; at another she faces a choice between dishonor (offered by oily No. 1 villain, Paul Freeman) and slow death (eagerly threatened by No. 2 menace, Ronald Lacey). If Indiana finds a secret passage out of a sealed tomb, you may be sure he's soon going to have to grapple with a goon amid whirling airplane propellers-and then, bloodied and bushed, roar...