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It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Andy Garcia's odyssey about a wealthy family living in pre and then revolutionary Cuba ultimately succumbs to a lot of the same problems as many historical pictures, telling a story that is far less compelling than its setting or the actual history (the memory of Mr Bay's 'Pearl Harbor' lingering all too near). Instead of the revolution or the kinds of lives that ordinary people led at that time and how they were affected by the war (a little like Stone's Heaven & Earth), the film centers on this family's internal squabbles, with Garcia as a Rick-esque club owner (right down to a white tux). Couple that with a woefully underutilized cast, with Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray utterly wasted and bored in their roles (Hoffman getting maybe 5-10 minutes of screen time across this 2 1/2 hour film as gangster Meyer Lansky), uneven direction that spans from vibrant & colourful, like the clubs and sunsets, to amateurishly bland & flat, including the 'oh-so-beloved' close-up/shaky cam action, and woefully slow pacing (especially for, again, a 2 1/2 hour feature that should be more careful) and you have an admirable but ultimately misguided effort. A shame too, as there is potential here, especially in the setting, war being told from those who lived in thick of it not often tackled by big mainstream films, and for what it's worth, the soundtrack has the expected but welcome Cuban pep to it, and the action is not afraid to get visceral or bloody, but again, it just doesn't ever come together as it should.

What are you ex-patriots smoking? Andy Garcia is a b-movie actor, with minimal talent and all of this shows in his embarrassing opus from a narrow minded, spoiled rich kid from Miami. Hold this film up to Walter Salles' Motorcycle Diaries and lets see which film wilts in the light of day. Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman look awkwardly out of place. And everyone's speaking English?! WTF! Many things have been said about Ernesto Guevara, but Garcia carelessly passes him off as a bloodthirsty tyrant. This was not the depiction I felt after seeing the better film released a year before that portrays a thoughtful medical student who was determined to blur the lines drawing up North, South and Central America. Like I said, This is your Brain (Motorcycle Diaries)and This is your brain on Drugs (Lost City).

I was looking forward to seeing this film, mainly because this is a subject that seems to have been avoided by film makers.I did not care which side of the political spectrum was portrayed, but was expecting some entertainment, which at first was promising, but then faded into a plot that was hard to follow, and got boring. To list Dustin Hoffmann as a major character was wrong, considering he virtually had but two cameo appearances in the whole movie, and Bill Murray's character did not do anything for him to even enjoy being in the credits.In all, it lacked everything that I would have expected from this cast.

Very very boring!Despite some historical background, with some real scenes, including executions at the "Paredon", the central characters are very unreal. Fico is portrayed as dreamer with no sins, and so is his nightclub. The dialogs are definitively to long. The development of the movie is to slow, and it will be hard to stay awake 143 minutes watching this boring stuff. What is Bill Murray doing there? Why Aurora get suddenly so deeply engaged with Fidel's politics, when in the life time of her husband she wouldn't know anything about the revolution?Beside the critics, the movie has some nice scenes, and the short acting of Dustin Hoffman as Mayer Lansky is quite good.I give 4/10. If you like Cuban musicals, may be you will give the movie a better rating.