27 years later it is still astonishing

Rating: 10/10 (20 April 2002)

What a movie! It just does not get better than this: A top notch director, three of the finest actors, a great writer with a very good story and you have a truly sensational movie. Now, why can't Hollywood make a film like this nowadays? There still are good actors, good directors but somehow the stories are missing. Clearly the modern day "political sensitivities" with their obligatory self-censorship is quite different from those of Kipling or even that of Huston, still, this is just not enough to explain the paucity of good stories.