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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 11:47:00 CST
- Sender: Discussions on all forms of Cinema <CINEMA-L@AUVM.BITNET>
- From: Rolando Recometa <$W$LB4P@LUCCPUA.BITNET>
- Subject: Hoffa
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- The best way to describe Danny de Vito's direction of Hoffa is
- is that he does a good Richard Attenborough - Hoffa is long,
- reverential, ponderous and dull. De Vito also manages the improbable
- - he elicits a boring performance from Jack Nicholson. Nicholson
- marches from one crowd scene to another, blaring out long Mamet speech
- after another, and offering very little insight into Hoffa's character.
- Part of the blame has to go to David Mamet's turgid, semi-coherent
- script. The movie is handsomely mounted, but De Vito's stylized
- direction clashes with the movie's realistic ambitions. Hoffa is one
- of the year's turkeys
- Rolando
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