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- 1979
- R
- United Artists
- 2 h 2 m
- 1979
- R
- United Artists
- 2 h 2 m
Summary A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train General Batista's Army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
Directed By: Richard Lester
Written By: Charles Wood
- 1979
- R
- United Artists
- 2 h 2 m
- 1979
- R
- United Artists
- 2 h 2 m
Cuba
49
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Summary A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train General Batista's Army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
Directed By: Richard Lester
Written By: Charles Wood
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
49
29% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
49
29% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
An entertaining and well-crafted political satire that is definitely worth a look.
Though a lot of the dialogue would seem absurd even on daytime soap opera, the movie keeps coming up with scenes so arresting or eccentric you are aware of the wicked intelligence behind them.
Mostly, Cuba is boring. [24 Dec 1979]
Marvelous atmosphere and individual scenes, but not quite a movie. [31 Dec 1979, p.12]
By the time this atmospheric but thoroughly muddled story reaches its conclusion, the film has totally self-destructed. [31 Dec 1979, p.49]
Havana, Cuba, 1959. Lucky they print this on the screen, as it's the first and last coherent piece of information you can glean from Lester's political love story, which mentions neither politics nor love but plays out its actions against a background of both.
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