Desperate Hours 1990 123movies

Watch: Desperate Hours 1990 123movies, Full Movie Online – Psychotic criminal, Michael Bosworth’s about to go on trial. But prior to doing so, he cons his lawyer into helping him escape. As the pair try to make their getaway, she’s left behind. He decides to wait for her to come to him. He hides out at the house of the Cornells. Now it appears the Cornells have problems of their own. The husband and wife are separated, and there’s an FBI agent after them who’s using the lawyer to lead them to Bosworth..
Plot: An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple’s house and takes over their lives.
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Ratings:

	5.4/10 Votes: 7,725
	29% | RottenTomatoes
	33/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 151 Popularity: 9.859 | TMDB

Reviews:

relentlessly over the top
Lawyer Nancy Breyers (Kelly Lynch) is defending robber and murderer Michael Bosworth (Mickey Rourke) for killing a guard in prison. She helps him escape but she falls behind. Albert (David Morse) and his brother Wally Bosworth (Elias Koteas) drive the getaway. Brenda Chandler (Lindsay Crouse) releases Nancy to track down Bosworth. Tim (Anthony Hopkins) and Nora Cornell (Mimi Rogers) are splitting up their family with their children (Shawnee Smith, Danny Gerard). He’s broken up with his girlfriend and looking to reunite but she insists on selling the house. Michael and his men take over the house and keep the Cornells hostage. He makes contact with Nancy as he waits for her to join them.

Director Michael Cimino remakes the 1955 film. He’s trying way too hard to be stylish. Some of the acting is too over-the-top. If he could dial some of it back, the movie could be an intense crime thriller. Micky Rourke can be an intense bad guy without any help but Cimino insists on pushing it. Everybody is overacting. The worst is probably Lindsay Crouse. Cimino is using every camera move and dramatic music. It’s a little ridiculous to release Nancy but the call to her apartment is a little more ridiculous. The cops could easily be listening on the other end. It’s not as if the message is in code. The movie could have been great but Cimino’s relentlessness squanders the work of some great actors.

Desperate Movie
After the financial disaster that was HEAVEN’S GATE, Michael Cimino was on a warpath to prove he was still a legitimate filmmaker. He subsequently made the overwrought YEAR OF THE DRAGON, THE SICILIAN and a remake of DESPERATE HOURS in the 1980s. All of those films bombed at the B.O. and his credibility never really recovered. Of all three films he directed in the 80s, DESPERATE HOURS is, by far, the worst. The movie is bad, bad, bad. The movie actually reflects its title. It’s truly desperate.

Like the director, the film wants to be taken seriously and yet it’s woefully misguided with overwrought acting, leaden direction that rarely makes any sense and a script that’s totally outdated and is divorced from logic. As I’ve said, the movie wants to be taken seriously but every attempt of seriousness is quickly shot down with remarkably ludicrous details. For instance, when David Morse is alone in the wilderness and he’s running away from the police, the whole moment is (oddly) directed with reverence but then, as Morse is heading towards a gas station, he meets two buxom bimbos who are dressed in such ridiculous clothes (they look like they just stepped out of a Playboy spread) that the director’s attempt at reverence is destroyed by the unexpected sight of those two women who just didn’t belong in the movie. I’m sure someone got laid from hiring those two women. Arf!

And then there’s the whole way Kelly Lynch is treated in the movie. What an embarrassing role. She didn’t deserve to be treated like that. I love Leonard Maltin’s description of what is done to her character: kamikaze disrobing.

But topping everything, even the dreadful music or scenery chewing from Mickey Rourke or Anthony Hopkins, is Lindsay Crouse’s performance, which can only be described as being out of this world. The way she talks, enunciates her dialogue, the way her character is directed, well, the whole thing is totally perplexing. I’ve tried to come up with a way to describe her acting/role but I can’t. Remember Dolores Fuller’s acting in GLEN OR GLENDA? Well, Lindsay Crouse must have taken some lessons from Dolores because her acting is identical. Personally speaking, Lindsay Crouse’s acting in DH ranks up there as one of the weirdest performances ever put on screen.

I haven’t seen the original version of DESPERATE HOURS but I can’t imagine it’s remotely close to being as dreadful as Michael Cimino’s version.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min)
Budget 18000000
Revenue 2742912
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Director Michael Cimino
Writer Joseph Hayes, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
Actors Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm