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Politics and religion aside, the acting alone is reason enough to watch this film. Jefferey Wright and Justin Kirk's performances stand out amongst an entire cast of great performances. Not a sour note in the bunch.
"Angel's in the "Out" Field"
2009-07-29
- Reviewed By User: A28GCEHD00JFZG
Angels in America: 6/10: The play Angels in America must have had a much greater impact in the nineties then the miniseries has today. It also probably worked better as a play. That said; this is one of the more creative adaptations of theater one is likely to see on the small screen.
Mike Nichols deserves great praise for making the stage bound fly. He over reaches occasionally but the effect is memorizing. Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Justin Kirk all shine. While the brilliant Jeffery Wright simply steals every scene he is in. Mary Louise Parker and relative newcomer Patrick Wilson are unfortunately saddled with a disposable story that does not really fit in with the rest of the play. In fact, poor Mr. Wilson simply disappears for the last third or so of the miniseries while his characters mother played by Meryl Streep takes center stage.
Pacino's Roy Cohn is hammy and not played as evil as he was in the original play. While Cohn has been more forgotten than redeemed since the play first came out; his nemesis Ethel Rosenbergs (Streep again) reputation has suffered greatly since the mid-nineties. While Pacino is very good, Streep is simply brilliant in the very well written role of a Mormon mother lost in New York. Her character simply surprises both the other characters and the audience by not sticking to our preconceived notions.
Two actors however do drop the ball. Emma Thompson simply does not make a good angel. She is not helped by the fact that the angel moves around like Peter Pan in a junior high school production. As a result many of the angel scenes simply do not work.
The other problematic performance is Ben Shenkman as Louis. One quickly has sympathy for every character that suffers with an encounter with Shenkman. Unfortunately the audience suffers the most screen time with this horrible persona. The character is simply evil. That self centered, banal evil one finds in real life. This is of course fine in a film, but Shenkman the actor doesn't seem to realize how repellent his characters actions are. Instead of developing the evil he simply pulls out Jewish stereotypes. Compare this to Pacino's entertaining vision of evil in the persona of Mr. Cohn.
Creative and surprisingly fun Angels in America does run a little long (as a miniseries is wont to do) but is worth a look.
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2009-06-09
- Reviewed By User: A2HQX6J0T9V2HQ
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"Angels ?"
2009-05-22
- Reviewed By User: A17TEFIYWS85K2
Both my wife and I had to watch this mini series a couple of times to make any sense of it. The acting in most cases was good and at other times just plain stupid.Meryl Streep can do anything, from the Rabi to the windowed Morman wife who turned in to the best friend of the lead actors with or without AIDS.Emma Thompson on the other hand should have stayed away from the roll of the Angel.Al Pacino is another actor that can do anything. Playing a gay person proves it.
I feel superfluous writing a review of this wonderful film after so many eloquent people have already written perceptive & glowing tributes, so I'll make it short. I thought I could never see a film greater than the top dramatic works of genius such as "Night Of The Iguana", "A Street Car Named Desire", "On The Waterfront", "Wild Strawberries", and "To Kill a Mockingbird" to name some that come quickly to mind, but this film I have to put into a category of its own. Good plays always represent a potential for good films since they already have a good script to start with - the least a play must have. But take a great play like this one by the genius of Tony Kushner, add the genius of a director in top form together with top actors like Al Pucino at his best with the other great performances by the amazing Mary Louise Parker, the strikingly superb Ben Shenkman and Patrick Wilson along with the divine Emma Thompson and you get an incredible knock out film that's more than a movie somehow. The constantly engrossing dialogue, the wonderful visual effects, the fascinating characters and story development makes one marvel. This is a unique film-phenomenon that hits very hard, knocks you around, throws you on the floor and makes you marvel at last at creation.
This movie is great! Al Pacino was fantastic, as was Jeffrey Wright, who've played a Hispanic drug-lord, to Muddy Waters. This is a must see film, which is very touching.
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"The acting alone is reason enough to watch Angels In America"
"Angel's in the "Out" Field"
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