“Carlos”: Year’s Most Exciting Film
Have you been watching “Carlos” this week on the Sundance Channel? If not, you’ve been missing out on the most exciting new movie of the year, whose fleet 321 minutes are infinitely preferable to the two-hour version that will be released into cinemas on Friday. I have a few quibbles about this story of a Venezuelan Marxist terrorist who symbolizes all the gritty, hijacked-plane revolutionary glamor of the 1970s. For example, the hatred of Israel is never adequately turned into the intellectual debate it could have mustered, and too often the title character is humorless. (On the other hand, hard-core ideologues tend to humorless — haven’t you noticed?) But I agree with Todd McCarthy in his review, when he wrote that “Carlos” is “everything ‘Che’ wanted to be and much, much more.” Forget Colin Firth for a moment as giving the great actor movie performance of 2010; for my money, it’s Edgar Ramirez in “Carlos.”
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