Stowe is stunning, and very little of the narrative is predictable. Emma Bovary would have fit into the role. She was kind of flighty and impulsive anyway. The usual template is a shootout with a gang of greaseballs wielding ugly automatic weapons in an abandoned warehouse and all the rest of it. (Only one man gets blown to bits by a shotgun.) Bonus points for that. They're forgotten.ДЄt the final confrontation, the resolution of the conflict between Costner and Quinn is as bloodless as possible. During this sojourn, Costner shows he can murder unarmed men just as easily as Quinn did. We're taken on a tour of the more louche dives in small Mexican towns and for a moment it looks like Sam Pekinpah might be lurking in the shadows somewhere. He's broke, bruised, unshaven, dressed in rags, and drives an old clunker. He's taken in by a couple of strangers who minister to him and his needs. (I think the scenes are a little confusing.) Costner recovers and the best part of the film follows. Stowe has her face scarred for life, is given to a whorehouse, and is turned into a junky. Costner is beaten half to death and flung off a bluff. One hopes they enjoyed it because Quinn's revenge is swift and brutal. It runs along the lines of soft-core porn with lots of see-through curtains, pastel drapes slowly billowing in the breeze, and plenty of candles. What can this miscreant pair be thinking? One hopes they enjoyed their illicit sexual interlude. Yet, Mexico, where Quinn is a kind of Godfather figure who murders someone who disses him, is a Latin culture where masculinity and honor are taken seriously. Costner seems to feel a little reluctant, but only at the beginning, to be taking off with the wife of his close friend, who obviously loves her. It may come as a surprise to Costner and Stowe when, without much in the way of preamble, they lock the door, throw themselves on the bed and begin rutting like two ferrets in heat, but it's no surprise to the viewer. How did he meet Anthony Quinn? Quinn says Costner once saved his life during a hunting trip, and they seem to be old pals who love each other, but what's the back story? Costner meets Quinn's wife, the startingly beautiful and sexy Madeleine Stowe, who is half Quinn's age. I also didn't know what was going on for much of the rest of the story because its understanding depends on our knowing what Costner feels about people and events - and he doesn't talk much, just shuffles and makes adolescent small talk. And aviators are one of those groups that have an excess of pride, like cops and doctors. His fellow fliers shower him with gifts when he leaves. He mumbles something about being bored or wanting time for himself, but what the hell does that mean? Flying got to be too routine a job after all that time? Not enough time, by the way, for a pension. For instance, Kevin Costner is a Naval aviator who is quitting after twelve years of service. It's almost always a problem, minor in the case of pulp literature, but insurmountable in complex works like 'Lolita' or 'Ulysses.' The problem is important, I would guess, in 'Revenge' too.

You have to see him do something to figure out what he's thinking.

Whatever is going on inside the skull, the cogs and wheels and whirligigs, has to be given some overt expression in a movie. In a novel, the writer can get into somebody's head in a way that he can't in a script. Jim Harrison's novel, which I haven't read, may have been better than the film.

Reviewed by rmax304823 5 / 10 Feuds have a beginning and an end.

Their attraction to each other is undeniable, but Cochran is aware that Mendez is a powerful, vindictive, and very possessive man who does not tolerate betrayal. Arriving at the Mendez mansion in Mexico, he is immediately surprised by the beauty and youth of Mendez' wife Miryea. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he once flew to Alaska for a hunting trip. He's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. Michael 'Jay' Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years.

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