Revenge

REVENGE (1990) - Feb. 14, 2011
Not even nearly as electrifying as you'd think a movie called "Revenge" would be, this was a somewhat dull film about a ex-fighter pilot who goes to stay with a shady Mexican crime lord (and how those two met, something about saving the crime lord's life, is left somewhat vague, like many of the plot points in the film) and winds up falling in love with his wife.  Though the whole film is pretty slow, it's the first hour or so that really sinks the film -- the characters aren't really compelling enough to support the almost completely uneventful first half of the movie.  It doesn't help that Kevin Costner's character is fairly bland, and he doesn't have much chemistry with Madeline Stowe.  The film does improve somewhat once stuff starts happening, but it's kind of too late by then.  **