Item #: 5303DVD Category: NEWMAN, PAUL Format: DVD MPAA Rating: U

Woolly Rating: 5/10 (61 votes)

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DKB	Oct 2, 2004 @ 17:34:6

TEPID EPIC
There's about 30 minutes of action in this 3/12 hour long would-be "epic" about the events leading up to the creation of Israel. Casting blue-eyed hunk Paul Newman as an Israeli freedom fighter makes about as much sense as casting Brad Pitt to play Osama bin Laden. And prim Eva Marie Saint (looking almost middle-aged in her close-ups) is not very convincing as his love interest. Even the great Ralph Richardson seems a bit phony in his role of a smug British general. Only Lee J. Cobb as Newman's father and Sal Mineo as the Auschwitz survivor turned terrorist seem to belong in this film. Cute teen Jill Haworth as the innocent victim of this political mess also deserves mention. A downbeat, anti-climatic ending doesn't help matters. This is far from the Israeli epic the producers and directors must have envisioned upon reading Leon Uris' novel. If you have any interest in Israeli history, search out a good documentary instead--you'll learn ten times as much in half the time.

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