Rotten
The Sicilian represents a botched telling of the life of postwar outlaw leader Salvatore Giuliano.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Sicilian
In Sicily, you stand by the law or by the Mafia. Only one man ever dared to stand alone.
1987 · 1h 56m · R
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Michael Cimino
Overview
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Director and cast
- Michael Cimino Director
- Christopher Lambert as Salvatore Giuliano
- Terence Stamp as Prince Borsa
- Joss Ackland as Don Masino Croce
- John Turturro as Pisciotta
- Richard Bauer as Hector Adonis
- Barbara Sukowa as Camilla, Duchess of Crotone
- Giulia Boschi as Giovanna Ferra
- Ray McAnally as Trezza
- Barry Miller as Dr. Nattore
- Andreas Katsulas as Passatempa
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
10%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The dialogue is ponderously poetic, stilted and over-emphatic, characters are convenient cyphers, and both cutting and photography tend towards the bombastic. Folly, then, but gloriously inept and overblown.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
The film is a mess, though hardly on the panoramic scale of Heaven's Gate.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
One of this film's big problems is that you can hardly see it. The foregrounds are dark and indistinct. The backgrounds are overlit and washed-out.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
The Sicilian is unambiguously atrocious, but in that very special, howlingly grandiose manner that only a filmmaker with visions of epic greatness working on a large scale with a multinational cast can achieve.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
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