Product Details

• Actors: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Elpidia Carrillo, Joaquim de Almeida
• Directors: John Mackenzie
• Writers: Christopher Hampton, Graham Greene
• Producers: Norma Heyman, Richard F. Dalton
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1998
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00000F2FF
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #167,243 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing waste of star cast, September 16, 2002

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Marjorie Johns (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beyond the Limit [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Anglo-Paraguyan doctor Eduardo Plarr (Gere) moves into Corrientes, meets the honorary British Consul, Charlie Fortnum (Caine), an incorrigable drunk. Fortnum and the local chief of police, Colonel Perez (Hoskins), introduce him to the realities of life in the border town, which is under military occupation due to the high incidence of Paraguayan terrorism in the area. Eduardo starts having a passionless affair with Fortnum's 19 year old ex-prostitute wife and gets involved with terrorists who kidnap Charlie instead of the American Ambassador. It ends badly.

Despite the excellent cast, the performances in this film are disappointing across the board: Gere's trying to hard, Caine's trying only as hard as he has to and the usually reliable Hoskins has a worse Spanish accent than Gere's English one. The characters are one-dimensional and unsympathetic and Mackenzie directs at a snail's pace, which adds to the general feeling that nothing interesting is happening.