Movie #260 ........................."The Razor's Edge"

Movie #260 "The Razor's Edge" was a mess ---- a beautifully photographed film, but a mess as far as focus, acting, script and directing. This was the first movie we streamed from Netflix to our t.v., so it was kind of cool to be able to do that, but this was a let down. Let's just say Bill Murray didn't have the dramatic tension it took to do this film ---- and he's too modern acting to get across the time period. He just was miscast. So was Theresa Russell ---- her acting was uneven in the film. And speaking of uneven, so is the script ------- dialogue was up and down in intensity and there were several clunker moments. This overall made me want to read the book more. It's kind of like Brideshead Revisited in scope, but doesn't near measure up to that film.





Average rating: 3.448
I gave it 2 stars
The Razor's Edge
(1984) PG-13
Based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel. Larry Darrell (Bill Murray) returns from the battlefields of World War I a changed man. His fiancée, Isabel (Catherine Hicks) resigns herself to a delayed wedding when Larry heads to Paris to find meaning in his life. He's then inspired to travel to Nepal, where he receives guidance from a lama. But while he's off globetrotting, the life he leaves behind changes dramatically. …