The Passage (1979)
2/10
Hideous waste of a potentially good cast and plot.
3 January 2019
I don't know who to blame the most; director, producers, script writers, photography director, even actors.

The plot is beyond corny but might have been saved by an able director. Instead, he wasted the acting potential of the cast by means of unbearable amateurish photography, ridiculous scenes, stupid dialogs and vagary of focus.

Add a fantastic feat, which is also unjustified (the Pyrenees crossing doesn't require Himalayan grade climbing and there are hundreds of passages) that constitutes the base of the feeble plot and you have a recipe for disaster.

The corny cardboard characters, beginning with McDowell and Quinn will make you want to switch channels immediately, even to a TV sales space; unfortunately there was not anything else on tap.

Just cannot undestand anybody giving it a rating over 2/10. I should have given it a 1/10 but at least I didn't find it offending. The film is pure dung; not even fit for 3d rate TV.

Certainly not worth the time...
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