Basil
by Radha Bharadwaj
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Actor: Christian Slater, Claire Forlani, David Ross, Derek Jacobi, Jared LetoDirector: Radha Bharadwaj
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Producer: Christian Slater
Writer: Radha Bharadwaj
Producer: Donald Kushner
Producer: Ferne Cassel
Producer: Fuminori Hayashida
Producer: Gregory Cascante
Writer: Wilkie Collins
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
Published: 2003-03-04
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Product features:
- Big-screen favorites Christian Slater, Jared Leto, and Claire Forlani are the hot stars in this powerful story of passion, betrayal, and revenge! Basil is a sheltered young Englishman willing to risk his fortune and place in society for the friendship of a commoner and love of a strikingly beautiful -- but darkly mysterious -- woman. His newfound happiness is shattered, however, with the devastati
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DVD Review: Crazy bad film
Summary: 1 Stars
I wanted bad to like this movie. I am a huge fan of Slater and Forlani. I saw this movie when it came out (I was 14) and was confused by it and didn't particularly like it, but obviously didn't form a solid opinion of the movie because I rented it again this week to see why I still didn't have an opinion of it. Now I know why.
The "mystery" of the film (spoilers below) has very little to do with the movie itself. I read in another review that this film is about "revenge gone wrong" when in fact this film is about revenge never happening! The movie provides an endless list of questions that are never answered.
Why is Basil so ridiculously gullible and naive to the point where you're just plain embarrassed for him?
How more could the director possibly spoil his own "mystery" with the cut rope near the beginning and Julia's constant hesitations with Basil?
How pathetic is John Manyan's character (big spoiler alert here) to spend his entire life building up to something only to completely give up on it at the last moment for no obvious reason? Nice justice he brought his father.
Why do Basil and his brother keep in no contact whatsoever? They appear to be very close early on, and then when sent away, Basil makes no attempts to reconnect with his brother at all. Clearly he has a desire for a male friend- as this movie takes great pains to point out in his strong and quickly made friendship with John Manyan. Travel is no issue for Basil- he makes excuses to go to London to see Manyan. Why would he not go see his brother?
Can Basil's father be any more one-dimensional and any less convincing as a character? We keep getting this stupid line about "such-and-such knows their place" trying to label him as being so stuck up it's the only thing we know about him. It is so unbelievable that a character who is only identifiable by one characteristic should completely change who he is at the end of the film (especially when this has happened off-screen).
What are we supposed to feel for the father at the end of the film other than the fact that he ruined many lives and no one took their revenge on him? He gets away with what he has done, and the audience is supposed to somehow find this a "happy ending".
Nothing is resolved, and we don't understand several of the main characters. Clara, the only sympathetic character in the film, never once challenges her foster father's cruelness, and so transitions to just pathetic. At least Manyan had ambition, though unrealized.
I actually laughed when the credits rolled after Basil said he wanted to stay and live with his dad.
What a waste of everyone's time and talent.
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