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A retired government explosives expert with a secret a Beautiful woman Bent on revenge and a ruthless family of mobsters All become intertwined in this sensual suspense thriller set in Miami. Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone a peer hold on for electrifying action As bus carrying a bomb careens through the los Angeles morning Rush hour. Dennis Hopper and Kean Reeves wow to armenal Vete Elty Po-13. A skydiving instructor Charlie Sheen takes a mysterious stranger Nastassja Kratki out for her first lesson we o. Clastic tale of e girl the site of thumb. Animated with voices of Jodie Benson and Carol Channing. We Tom keep r. Jean Claude Van Damme plays a Sci i Constable who hop from decade to decade round ing up time travelling Crooks a wow tem Catene r. Overlong Western about the Earp and the gunfight at the . Corral. Some stirring action but mostly aggressively unbelievable. Kur Trussell and Val Kilmer wow tote Llama r. 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Richard Briers portraying a Blind peasant touches the monstrous Robert de Niro in Mary Shelley s Chuck Vinch staff writer \ m \ 1i.s Mary shanty s Frankenstein rated r a w must tee Worth your Tjw passable entert aliment coming my n to video outlet Dot you and you can wait great literature does not necessarily make for great movies As Kenneth Branagh discovers in trying too Faith fully to adapt the essence of Mary Shel Ley s gripping exploration of our inner nature. Branagh who stars As the obsessed Victor Frankenstein and also directed this sumptuous but a involving Effort related stores on pages 22-23faces two dilemmas neither of which he and screenwriters Steph lady and Frank Darabont can overcome. For one thing Branagh often loses sight of the fact that he s working in a far different medium than Shelley was when he concocted her Complex tale in 1816. The other problem is that any film treatment of the Story is inevitably measured against what will forever be the Standard director James whale s classic 1931 version starring Boris Kar Loff and this one comes up Short. Branagh s Large ego also hurts the film. He wastes the first half hour on a Talky tedious recitation of Victor s Serene Early life. When he finally moves into the obsessed stage he plays half his scenes with his shirt off. Most dam aging of All is the Way he often treats the creature Robert de Niro As just another subplot. Shelley s Story was motivated in part by her fears of childbirth and violent birthing imagery pervades this film. It s the grisly death of his Mother in child birth that Sparks Victor s quest to out wit the grim reaper. As he strives to artificially create life ovary shaped containers filled with viscous liquid hang overhead in his lab. This water then Breaks heralding the birth of the creature who explodes from a womb like chamber covered in icky amniotic fluid. And so on and so Forth. Subtlety thy name is not Ken Neth once the hideous creature is born the spotlight briefly and grudgingly it seems turns on him As he manages to flee the City amid the panic of a Chol Era epidemic. Escaping to the Forest he takes ref Uge with an unwitting farm family and even befriends its patriarch Richard brie san old Blind Man. It s impossible to watch this scene and not think of Peter Boyle and Gene Hackman Inyoung Frankenstein but de Niro and Briers manage to pull it off anyway these Are de Niro s Best scenes. He artfully captures the confusion and rage of a creature struggling to discover who he is and How he came to be. An innocent Man child at this Point he elicits great compassion. All too soon however Branagh swings the attention to Victor s Light weight romantic relationship with his adopted sister Elizabeth Helena Bon Ham Carter. While this gives him More opportunities for Bare chested bravado it also sinks the film. Above All else Frankenstein should be a monster movie. But this movie just does t have enough monster. One of the greatest characters in All of fiction should t be forced to compete for screen time with two foppish lovebirds. Branagh tries to jump Start the film in the late going by tossing in several gruesome scenes As the increasingly articulate creature returns to take re Venge on his creator. It does t work. These scenes Are Revo tingly graphic and serve Only to torpedo whatever sympathy the audience May have devel oped for the monster. The film offers fleeting pleasures among them de Niro s performance and John Cleese s Brief role As a pro Fessor whose dark medical experiments shape Victor s passions. But while he keeps viewers mildly interested Branagh never manages to evoke a real sense of terror and that s his biggest failing. In the end his film is As soulless As Frankenstein s monster. La try a 5,i% s. I rfcs a 1s w Page 12 sunday november 20,1994
