5/10
It took a lot of talent to make a bad movie
11 February 2022
The book by Erich Maria Remarque is a beautiful and sad story that has been hacked to pieces in the screenplay Sydney Pollack is a great director however it is as if Pollack did not understand the beauty of the story the woman and her dresses and the man and his car We should have seen something akin to The Italian Job Lamborghini Miura in the mountains But Pollack does not seem to understand the love of cars Marthe Keller is wrong for the part you need someone so beautiful that it hurts to look at her perhaps a Michelle Pfeiffer Audrey Hepburn or Faye Dunaway Someone so beautiful that will make men casp for air The dresses that she hangs in her room should be like the dresses of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffanys

Al Pacino is certainly a great actor but I cant see him as a smooth operator race driver and he needs to be cool for this - we need a Poul Newman or Steve McQueen

This movie is missed opportunity it a great example that having all the right people does not bring a great movie.
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