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Illuminata (1998)
Sad experience
I agree with the comment the critic Bevalaqua (Walken was the best in the cast) made at the beginning of the movie (except for his appreciation for that actor). The originality isn't missing but it's all so boring and not entertaining at all.
I rent the movie and I watch it alone. The enterprise was hard but i managed to stay awake until the and. Although the theme is fundamentally the same "Illuminata" all that made "Shakespeare in Love" a great movie. The actors are all talented and professional but there are too many characters to care about and finally I cared about none of them. A sad and disappointing experience that I hope to forget soon.
Sorry, I just didn't like it.
The Game (1997)
Beautiful box with a cheap content
After "Se7en", which I repute a masterpiece, David Fincher returns with this noir that plays with secrets and deceptions. The content is cheap and the rhythm is slow. For more than an hour nothing really important happens. All the revelations are concentrated in the last few minutes without which the film would be a deadly bore also because Douglas is dull and unpleasant. Fincher, anyway, is still a good director: the grim atmosphere is flawless and the flashbacks are wonderful. If only he had had a good script!!!
The Second Civil War (1997)
Much more than a TV-movie
"The Second American Civil War" appeared in the cinemas in Italy and caused many discussions probably because of the correspondences between its plot and the matter of secession in Northern Italy promoted by the Lega Nord party. Anyway, this movie is great for other reasons and deserved to be seen in the cinemas of any country. The only lack of the movie is the weakness of the characters such as the pathetic figure of the old wise journalist (James Earl Jones). However the real main character is the background, that is the society, the medias and the political class. Dante strikes all these categories with a brilliant and grotesque satire and represent all their contradictions.
The influential News Net spread idiotic and mediocre message. The politicians only care about keeping their careers with the political tricks (the ultimatum mustn't interfere with the popular soap-opera). Finally Dante paints a society that can't find an alternative between "We are all brothers" and "This is my land and here I command".
You MUST SEE it, if you have the chance because it is far the best movies of is genre (much better than "Wag the Dog")