The Adventurers
by Lewis Gilbert
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Actor: Alan Badel, Candice Bergen, Charles Aznavour, Delia Boccardo, Thommy BerggrenDirector: Lewis Gilbert
Brand: BORGNINE/DE HAVILLAN/BERGEN
Cinematographer: Claude Renoir
Producer: Lewis Gilbert
Writer: Lewis Gilbert
Editor: Anne V. Coates
Producer: Joseph E. Levine
Writer: Harold Robbins
Writer: Michael Hastings
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 171 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of The Adventurers
DVD Review: Mismarketed?
Summary: 4 Stars
Taking a look at the DVD case for this, you read a whole different text than what this movie actually is. The DVD case presents a movie that is a romantic action adventure, a children's movie (rated PG) or at least family movie about a hero who gets the girl and everything turns out all right in the end.
This movie is rated PG.
We open on a boy and his dog, idyllic, playful, nothing to worry about. The music is friendly, the colors are friendly, the land is friendly, everything is perfect. Then a gunshot rings out and the dog falls dead. The boy runs to a villa, where he watches his family get raped and murdered, all very bloody, violent, and horrifying (much like the same type of violence in A Clockwork Orange, actually).
This movie is rated PG.
We follow this boy's journey through life, not as an action adventure, but as an epic... the story of a man who, after the trauma of his family's near complete distruction, is sent away to Rome to escape the made-up South American land of Corteguay, where he transistions between being an adulterist playboy (much like a less liked and less proactive James Bond, which is interesting because the director made Moonraker), to an apathetic, bitter nigh-rapist, to the potential savior of Cortequay who is only used and abused by its leaders until he himself falls victim and nothing changes for the better.
This movie is rated PG.
We follow a whole melange of extra characters as they move through their either abused, poor life without happiness, or their empty, corrupted life as the rich, and how they all intermix and intermingle to create a land, Corteguay, that is constantly at war with itself, and how they all add to it their own violence.
This movie is rated PG.
We follow playboys into S&M dungeons (again, imagery very alike A Clockwork Orange), young boys becoming men by shooting down rows of prisoners with automatic machine guns, women without control of their independence, civil leaders claiming that "There must be a cohesion of evil and politics," revolutionaries who rape, pillage, plunder, and massacre; prostitute nuns, apathetic heroes, unstimulating sex (and lots of it), children getting killed, and the beauty of civilization and nature juxtaposed with explosions and grimacing Gothic architecture, idealistic moments ALWAYS ended suddenly with pronounced, crippling pain.
This movie is rated PG.
I'll go out on a limb here and say that it's probably likely nobody likes this movie. It's not likeable. It's well done, but clocking in at just over 3 hours of watching the horrors of humanity being committed again and again while our unsympathetic hero has sex with everything with two legs and makes a living off of it... Even if it was marketed correctly, it wouldn't be approached correctly.
--PolarisDiB
Description of The Adventurers
A playboy seeks revenge for the death of his father, a South American diplomat.No Track Information Available
Media Type: DVD
Artist: BORGNINE/DE HAVILLAN/BERGEN
Title: ADVENTURERS
Street Release Date: 07/12/2005
Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
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