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Michael Cimino: Films
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Cimino wrote the script for The Dogs of War starring Christopher Walken and was ... signed to direct but was subsequently removed from the project. The film was eventually made with a heavily rewritten script in 1981.
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Three men are put through the ultimate horrors of imprisonment in Vietnam in Michael Cimino's searing study of friendship and the mental devastation that war wreaks. Previously available on a features-light single DVD, Studio Canal has now brought out a double disc edition that's a vast improvement, although technical presentation of the film could still be better.
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The Desperate Hours directed by Michael Cimino, is an attempt to remake the Humphrey Bogart classic of the same name with indifferent results. Bosworth (Mickey Rourke), a brutal criminal on the run with his partners, takes over a house occupied by an unhappily married couple Nora (Mimi Rogers) and Tim (Anthony Hopkins) and their young son and daughter. Bosworth has escaped from jail with the help of his defense attorney Nancy Breyers (Kelly Lynch). The film focuses on the interactions of the family and Bosworth as he plans his escape to Mexico. Cimino wastes little time in developing the characters or explaining the implausible premise that Bosworth would chose an occupied house and hold an innocent family captive when the logical choice would be to lay low and wait for his chance to escape. Both Hopkins and Rourke, usually excellent actors, give wildly over-the-top performances, aided by the lurid, over-written dialogue of the screenplay and the badly paced, ill-conceived direction by Cimino, which instead of creating tension and suspense, simply confuses the already muddled and incomprehensible plot.
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This commentary is bang up to date, as you'll understand when Cimino explains the funding of the film. At the time it was made, no US studio thought that there would be a market for such a movie as they were going through political turmoil over Vietnam that Cimino compares to the UK with Iraq. Funding in the end came from EMI, which backed the project even though no script was written.
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