Review of The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) by Victor M — 15 Jul 2014
Very good movie starring a young Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn. I'd never heard of this one. I'm not sure if it has just been forgotten or what, but I was very surprised to find a great hidden gem of a movie here.
Timothy Hutton plays a young adult who works for a security firm that transmits and destroys government cables. He starts to find out that the US government is way more corrupt than anyone thought seeing how the CIA manipulates other countries economies and destroys peoples whole way of living. He gets his drug dealing friend played by Sean Penn to go down to Mexico and sell the cables to a Russian Embassy. The motivation for them doing this gets kind of fuzzy for them and they start to unravel emotionally.
Sean Penn looks very young in this although I'd say this was his first really good performance other than Bad Boys (1983). Timothy Hutton, who I know most as the main guy on that TV show Leverage, is also really good here. Both actors take the roles to a very high emotional level that really works. The plot lags behind their performances a bit, but it is by no means boring or anything like that.
Overall it is a really solid movie that is more relevant today than ever before. The US government is still manipulating other countries economies and are doing even more than that now.
This review of The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) was written by Victor M on 15 Jul 2014.
The Falcon and the Snowman has generally received positive reviews.
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