The lengthy film tells the 1926 story of a hard-to-get-along with US Navy engineer who's transferred to a gunboat smack in the middle of a war torn China. It's a film that works on an intimate level about a man who knows how to do his job well but struggles to understand his place within others and his purpose. On a larger scale, it mirrors the racism and questionable involvement of the U.S pretty much any war they've stuck their overly proud noses in, past and present. Considering it's length, the impact of the story struggles to maintain it's quality but is mostly upheld by it's colorful photography, powerful performances from McQueen, Richard Crenna & Mako and great early score composed by Jerry Goldsmith.
3½ homes away from home out of 5
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McQueen’s box set breaks the ‘Actor Collection’ box set rules: it has no crap one!
Wise seemed to like making long pictures, but, like you say, his technical ability can give film-lovers something to distract them when the story starts to drag...
...except for Star Trek: TMP. :p
It's almost unbearably long at times.
Make sure you put this one one early in the evening because you'll find yourself nodding off something fierce if it's too late.
I'm one of the weird ones you didn't hate Trek: TMP as much as everyone else. It's my 2nd to least favorite of the TOS crew films but still...something about it, even if it's more like an arthouse sci-fi film which happened to employ actors from Trek. XD
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