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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0798622020031 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Westlake Languages: Manufacturer: Westlake Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Westlake Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 10, 2002 Running Time: 91 minutes Studio: Westlake Theatrical Release Date: 1979 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - to all our BURTON fans:Even as a 7 year old kid whenever I 'heard' my father play a Richard Burton film I knew it was him. His voice always got me before his acting did. I remember seeing 'Absolution' in my early teen years. I wanna see it again to understand what I could not. But more, why it had got me (?) Was it the suspense with a dark gothic look? Today it stands to be a cult movie, so to speak, (that goes for the movie '1984' too). I believe being told 'Absolution' was banned upon theatrical release in the ... Read More Rating: - A thriller made five years before Burton's deathAbsolution, an English psychological thriller with a strong anti-religion subtext (a genre almost single handedly created by the film's screenwriter Anthony Shaffer with his far superior film The Whicker Man), was one of Richard Burton's final films. After decades of heavy drinking and Liz Taylor, Burton, in his declining years, tended to show every sign of his lifestyle. This was often to the detriment of the film's he was involved in and Absolution is no different. In this film, Burton plays ... Read More Rating:  - 1 star due to very poor quality of amazon videoAmazon has duplicated this film on slow speed using very little tape. The result being the quality is so poor, one can barely watch it. It is disgraceful that Amazon would do something like this. It is almost like a boot-legged video. Don't BUY this video from Amazon.com Rating: - Green peas make green pastaNot a bad video but has two awful performances with one terrible music score. After watching this I immediately put the tape in the toilet and tried to flush it down but it clogged it up and then it overflowed. That tape has been giving me problems ever since I began using it. Otherwise it is an okay piece not worth $1.50. Rating: - Burton's last starring roleA good film, not quite able to break out of TV limitations thanks to a mainly TV director and a script not up to par with Schaffer's prior Sleuth. But the performances and characterisations are excellent, and enough to grip a viewer thinking of England on a rainy afternoon. |
