This is not to say it is a very good film. It isn't. And Brando only did it for the money and just tried to have fun with his character. But Brando acted rings around GC Scott in their scenes together. He sold his character's world view far better than Scott sold his character's world view. When Brando talked about the way the world is, he made sense. When Scott ranted about people being made to eat out of garbage cans, he just sounded stupid. Perhaps Scott simply got saddled with the hokey lines. It was fun to watch Scott seething about all the injustices while Brando just coasted along, kind of floating, and calmly fixing things his way at the end. This was very good going up against great.
Review of The Formula
