Alan Smithee This is the only film I have reviewed after a number of years on this website, but I feel it is important to warn you that this film may make you curse your parents for bringing you into this world. It is so bad, I find myself wondering if I will ever feel pleasure again. If I had to choose between watching this film again or spending an eternity in Hell, I would skip gleefully into Satan's arms. Even Harvey Keitel remaining relatively clothed was not enough to counter the terrible acting, nonsensical plot, and plodding direction. I had to stop watching about ten minutes from the end to retain the tiny amount of will I had left that was keeping me from plunging a dagger between my eyes.Please do not make the mistake I made by viewing this abomination.

Claudio Carvalho In Italy, in the Sicilian island of Ginostra, Matt Benson (Harvey Keitel) is a FBI agent assigned for the protection and investigation of Ettore Greco (Mattia de Martino), the son of Stefano Greco, a cooker of the Mafia executed with his family by one of the local boss. The boy witnessed the crime and Matt wants also to find out who has double-crossed him in the protection of the boy's father. This long story is very boring, having a confused screenplay without credibility. Who could imagine an experienced American agent, who does not speak Italian, bringing his family for a period of vacation in Mafia territory while performing an important investigation of a crime committed by one of the mobster boss? The great cast and the beautiful `sightseeing' of wonderful landscapes in the Italian islands and the gorgeous eyes and lips of Francesca Neri exhaustively showed by the director Manuel Pradal is not enough to make this movie attractive. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): ` O Vulcão Ginostra' (` The Volcano Ginostra')

Stephen O'Connell I saw this movie at the Toronto Filmfest and had such high hopes... soon to be dashed. The plot is both confused and boring, leaving the audience incapable of identifying with the characters. The backdrop of an erupting volcano tries to give the film tension but merely confuses the storyline. Harvey Keitel manages to make some of the movie at least watchable but this movie rated high on the numb-bum-omiter... for a movie pegged at 135 mins it felt like 4 hours.The whole audience was left in stunned silence at the end of the movie. When the Q and A started the director was asked "what were the evil nuns about? " he didn't seem to know what they were there for either... I'd like to think it was a nod to Monty Python ;-)

cnolan-2 Will this be the most talked about movie on the year? Perhaps - as everyone will be trying to figure out what went wrong with the film!I saw this movie @ it's premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (2002) and I've got to say, it was the most talked about movie between my friends and I. We just had so many questions about what various pieces of the movie meant as we were all sure we had to be missing something. We concluded that no, we didn't miss anything - there just wasn't enough there to tie it all together.The movie has a lot of beautiful shots of the Italian coast, and the island of Ginostra. I think the editors could have done a much better job of pulling everything together. Also, I just didn't feel any chemistry between Harry Kietel and Andie MacDowell who were playing husband and wife.