Purely Joyful Movie!

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one of my absolute favorites!

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Duvall heads south to Argentina to knock off a General. Apparently he favors enjoying the local culture, as he soon becomes enmeshed with a generational tango crowd including the enchanting Predraza. For some reason I'm enthralled with movies about undercover hit men, this one pretty much fits the bill, and it's always interesting when Duvall's on the screen. Enjoy.

I am so sick of Hollywood formula crap that I embraced this movie, even with all its faults. Duvall is an artist of depth, and he's created a movie here of some substance, in spite of the fact that the improvised dialog is often dull and even meaningless. But the movie has an ambiance, albeit slow, and atmosphere. Most of all, though, it is refreshingly free of most of the typical Hollywood manipulations. One could say that Duvall threw in the whole assassination idea just to carry the tango business—and that is true. But The tango part had no plot at all, so that the assassination plot serves as a sort of skeleton to support the real business, which is tango.Some have observed that tango dancing is an acquired taste that probably left much of the audience cold. But like all movies that introduce you to something you don't have any prior knowledge of, it is not the subject itself that's important, but rather the reaction and relationship of the character(s) to that subject. His love of tango gave the Duvall assassin an unusual depth of character that made him not only more interesting than your average assassin, but made him more human. This fact not only justified his getting away with murder, but also solved the common problem in movies of trying to portray sociopaths as believable people.I won't dwell on the many shortcomings of this movie because I found it refreshingly original, even honest, and as I said, mostly free of cynical Hollywood tricks.

I loved this! There a dark element to it ,but also a very romantic side. I've read Robert Duvall loves to tango in real life, and his dancing in this is so graceful and talented. The dancing in this is exquisite and the women so lovely and natural. They have the most beautiful legs I've ever seen. I was entranced by the dancing and Robert Duvall's performance was, as usual, without fault. I highly recommend it for Robert Duvall fans. The film makes me want to visit Argentina and see in person their beautiful dancing. I read somewhere that Duvall said that as writer, producer and actor he had trouble getting financing from the major studios, so he did it himself. Most of the scenes were filmed in New York for that reason. In my opinion, the final result is stellar!

This film follows the well trodden path of an ageing hit-man (John J) sent on what may well be his last job in Argentina which also sets the backdrop for a second stand of the story: John J's love of Tango. Between the dancing and the hit-man underworld we move from light to dark and subsequently John J's character becomes difficult to like and yet difficult to dislike. And this is what makes this film stand out for me. John J is a real person. Sometimes good. Sometimes bad. The interplay between characters has also got a fresh kind of realism to it ala Ken Loach. The touching café scene in particular between John J and Manuela feels like a docu-drama with its unscripted pauses and moments of awkwardness. If you are looking for action but are sick of the wooden black and white characters we get from Hollywood then this film is for you. I loved it.