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Although this voyage into self-destruction won't be to the taste of many, there will be few unmoved by Finney's towering performance as the tragic Britisher. Oct 23, 2007 | Full Review…
Although this voyage into self-destruction won't be to the taste of many, there will be few unmoved by Finney's towering performance as the tragic Britisher.
Variety Staff
Not for the purists, maybe, but the last half-hour, as Firmin plunges ever deeper into his self-created hell, leaves one shell-shocked. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Not for the purists, maybe, but the last half-hour, as Firmin plunges ever deeper into his self-created hell, leaves one shell-shocked.
The movie belongs to Finney, but mention must be made of Jacqueline Bisset as his wife and Anthony Andrews as his half-brother. Oct 23, 2004 | Rating: 4/4
The movie belongs to Finney, but mention must be made of Jacqueline Bisset as his wife and Anthony Andrews as his half-brother.
Roger Ebert
Daring as it is to have brought Under the Volcano to the screen in this faithful but incomplete form, Mr. Huston has done so without making compromises in the process. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
Daring as it is to have brought Under the Volcano to the screen in this faithful but incomplete form, Mr. Huston has done so without making compromises in the process.
Janet Maslin
As the tortured consul, Albert Finney has moments of technical brilliance, but Huston's direction gives him no inner life. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
As the tortured consul, Albert Finney has moments of technical brilliance, but Huston's direction gives him no inner life.
Dave Kehr
There are nips of beauty and terror, but the movie starts small and then shrinks. Jan 29, 2019 | Full Review…
There are nips of beauty and terror, but the movie starts small and then shrinks.
David Elliott
Succeeds in capturing the novel's sense of doom and gets a tour de force performance from Albert Finney. Nov 8, 2007 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Succeeds in capturing the novel's sense of doom and gets a tour de force performance from Albert Finney.
Dennis Schwartz
John Huston's version of Malcolm Lowry's dense, poetic unfilmable book is ambitious but only semi-effective in conveying this cult novel's tone; it's ultimately saved by the towering performance of Albert Finney as the alcoholic self-destructive consul Oct 29, 2007 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
John Huston's version of Malcolm Lowry's dense, poetic unfilmable book is ambitious but only semi-effective in conveying this cult novel's tone; it's ultimately saved by the towering performance of Albert Finney as the alcoholic self-destructive consul
Emanuel Levy
The result is very much worth the wait, bringing to life the mysticism of Mexico with a superb script by Guy Gallo, exquisite photography, and the unparalleled performance by Finney. Oct 23, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The result is very much worth the wait, bringing to life the mysticism of Mexico with a superb script by Guy Gallo, exquisite photography, and the unparalleled performance by Finney.
Captures and conveys the hot music of what some literary critics have called the greatest religious novel of the twentieth century Jul 23, 2003 | Full Review…
Captures and conveys the hot music of what some literary critics have called the greatest religious novel of the twentieth century
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A supremely difficult book becomes an easy film, and struggles hard to find a reason to exist. May 24, 2003 | Full Review…
A supremely difficult book becomes an easy film, and struggles hard to find a reason to exist.
Film4 Staff
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