Revolution

Revolution (1985)

  • 8% of critics liked it
    (12 reviews)

  • 41% of users liked it
    (2,917 ratings)

This period drama about the American Revolution has an overlay of rhetoric that thwarts the action, flattening out the story about a man and his loved ones caught up in the events of the time. Tom Dobb (Al Pacino) falls in love with Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski), an aristocrat who deserts her… More

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PG, 2 hr. 5 min.
Directed By
Hugh Hudson
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Dec 25, 1985 Wide
Warner Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Watching Revolution is a little like visiting a museum -- it looks good without really being alive.

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    It's also a mess, but one that's so giddily misguided that it's sometimes a good deal of fun for all of the wrong reasons.

  • , TV Guide's Movie Guide

    Beautifully photographed but emotionally uninvolving.

  • , Time Out

    An almost inconceivable disaster.

  • , Film4

    Curiosity alone should lead you to this one.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • jay n


    interesting cinematically overlooked time period, usually fine actors, terrible movie

  • Mike T


    According to Al Pacino and Hugh Hudson, studio interference was detrimental to this movie's impact. I watched it in the "Revisited" director's cut edition, and I was still unimpressed with what I saw. This is a movie that falls apart so quickly and extremely that… More

  • Dimitris S


    That's a poorly constructed "epic" film. Under the shadow of the forgotten ancestors, my first sentence is the warning I can provide you with...pardon me, prevent you from ever watching an insult to moral,mental and majestic dignity. Pacino, Sutherland, Hudson, robotic… More

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