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Flesh and Blood (Roadshow) A weird historical epic set in the 1500 s about a bunch of mercenaries getting their own back on their past master. A Hollywood film but more attuned to other revisionist works like Boorman’s Excalibur, where the politics of violence and a sense of sexual perversity are the real themes, rather than the picture book quality most Hollywood epics tend to become. Starring Australian Jack Thompson in a gruff commanding role of Captain Hankwood, and the finely chiseled features of Rutger (The Hitcher) Hauer in another nasty role.
Quite an interesting movie but I wonder if a lot of it didn’t end up on the editing room floor. There are also some strange historical problems, the language is more 20th century, as is the colourful tattoo on Hauer’s shoulder. A spectacle of sex and slaughter that goes beyond most others of its type. Kerry Buchanan
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Rip It Up, Issue 112, 1 November 1986, Page 42
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