Review of Sayonara (1957) by Tim H — 06 Jul 2008

Brando did a good job playing a complex and conflicted character, but I thought his accent made him sound too much like a cartoon dog rather than a real person. The story is very good, and a lot more daring that I would have expected from the 1950s, but the main characters fell in love way too fast to be believable.

Also, why the hell was Ricardo Montalban cast as a Japanese person? He canâ??t play a Japanese person, he can only play Ricardo Montalban. Why not cast William Shattner as an Eskimo, or John Wayne as Ghangas Khan (oh, wait, that actually happened in The Conqueror).

I knew this movie had something too it when I started getting really pissed at the racists characters in the second half of the film, although I can see a lot of people not getting as involved here as I did.

I canâ??t give this movie more than 3 stars though, since I spent a good portion of this film kind of bored by the slow story and kept wondering why the hell they named the main character Ace Gruber, which sounds like a nick name you would give to the retarded kid in your 4th grade class.