A money's-worth movie of broad scope, big cars, buttery talk, proud postures, and dubious purpose. The assumption appears to be that everyone will have missed Richard Lester's Cuba (1979) or else that anyone who did catch it didn't like it well enough to remember it. As embarrassingly similar as these two movies are, the aloofly ironic approach of Lester would seem to meet the reality of the case better than this swooningly romantic one. Havana in 1958 is not Casablanca in 1942, and the stirrings of Fidel Castro haven't quite the same emotional connotations as the French Resistance. One would have thought, in any event, that those who could be most sanguine about the coming of Castro would also be the most immune to this sort of prelapsarian Hollywood glop. With Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin, and Raul Julia; directed by Sydney Pollack. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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