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- 1990
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
- 1990
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
Summary An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.
Directed By: Michael Cimino
Written By: Joseph Hayes, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
- 1990
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
- 1990
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
Desperate Hours
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Summary An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.
Directed By: Michael Cimino
Written By: Joseph Hayes, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
33
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56% Mixed
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44% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
33
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
56% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
44% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
For all its improbability and rigorous emotion, Desperate does have its moments of quiet suspense and tension. Cimino often gets good performances and does so here. But when it's all over, nothing really unexpected has happened, and it has taken a lot of unpleasant moments to get through the desperate hours. [11 Oct 1990, p.C09]
Rourke is, in fact, exceedingly creepy. There's an unpredictable, resonant menace in his eccentricity. But Cimino can't connect the movie's thriller elements to its themes. We end up spending way too much time indoors while this thug waves a gun at these poor innocents.
With the prospect of more films like it in his future, Rourke’s decision to walk away from Hollywood while his star was still on the ascendant makes a lot more sense.
If you ignore the script--a good strategy for most recent major studio movies--there’s a lot of talent here. But Cimino’s Hours, instead of getting desperate, gets desperately pretty.
Desperate Hours is a monumentally awful take on The Desperate Hours, a '50s best-seller/stage hit, later Humphrey Bogart's movie-gangster swan song. [05 Oct 1990, p.4D]
The most desperate thing about Desperate Hours is Michael Cimino’s attempt to direct it coherently. In Cimino’s paws, the story of a merciless crook (Mickey Rourke) terrorizing a suburban family descends into lurid gibberish.
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