I suppose Kusturica can justify the 167-minute length by the historical breadth of the movie, but it simply doesn't sustain one's interest, significant or not.
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01/01/00
Underground (1995)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:15
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 47 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: A surreal, absurd mix of politics, sex, fantasty, black comedy and brutality that has been widely hailed as one of the decade's most exhilerating cinematic efforts. During World War II, a pair of... [More]
Starring: Miki Manojlovic, Slavko Stimac, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic
Director: Emir Kusturica
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Reviews for Underground
It's a snoozer.
01/01/00
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03/24/02
A sprawling, imaginative, bold and impressive work.
06/05/02
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07/30/03
One of the most ribald, risky and madcap war movies ever filmed.
01/01/00
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05/23/04
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03/05/02
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03/26/09
Emir Kusturica’s tragic-farce Underground may be the most important film of the last 25 years.
12/21/03
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07/18/05
Offers a zany overview of the treacherous path of politics in Yugoslavia leading to the outbreak of civil war in 1992.
03/03/02
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01/01/00
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02/09/06
Brilliant, outrageous filmmaking. Underground is touching, hilarious, and new.
06/29/04
Feverish, whimsical allegory elevated by moments of brilliant clarity.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe film can be both frenetic and strained. But it also has has a great deal of power and can be quite haunting.
01/01/00
Top CriticSo passionate, so exciting and so very odd at times that most of its obvious faults can be forgiven.
01/01/00
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04/19/04
One of the great moviegoing experiences of recent years -- a work of staggering sadness, vitality, and comic invention that's as awe-inspiring a spectacle in its own unhinged way as Titanic.
01/01/00
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