High on shock value, low on screenplay or meaningful dialogue or a story that makes any sense of being realistic.
Marlon Brando may have been nominated for an Oscar but he didn't win and he is not all that good here nor does he have much to work with. There are a few glimpses of greatness here and there because he can't help himself but he doesn't have a script to really pull anything that great off.
One obvious defect is he uses at least five different voices. There is his Godfather voice, his Stella voice, an English accent for one scene and one of the few times I have heard what sounds like his native Nebraska dialect.
The young actress does the best with a very difficult assignment playing Brando's love interest. The movie has them about 23 years apart though in real life the difference is almost 30 years. Brando is about 48-49 during filming.
Biggest problem in the movie is not so much the racy sex scenes but the infatuation of the director with sliminess and a fetish for making the scenes full of dirt.
Even a well choreographed ballroom dancing scene can't save this.
Decent ending sequence but this is really a waste of time.
Marlon Brando may have been nominated for an Oscar but he didn't win and he is not all that good here nor does he have much to work with. There are a few glimpses of greatness here and there because he can't help himself but he doesn't have a script to really pull anything that great off.
One obvious defect is he uses at least five different voices. There is his Godfather voice, his Stella voice, an English accent for one scene and one of the few times I have heard what sounds like his native Nebraska dialect.
The young actress does the best with a very difficult assignment playing Brando's love interest. The movie has them about 23 years apart though in real life the difference is almost 30 years. Brando is about 48-49 during filming.
Biggest problem in the movie is not so much the racy sex scenes but the infatuation of the director with sliminess and a fetish for making the scenes full of dirt.
Even a well choreographed ballroom dancing scene can't save this.
Decent ending sequence but this is really a waste of time.