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| ACTORS: | John Glover, Ilan Mitchell-Smith |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Keith Gordon |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 18 November, 1988 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Anchor Bay Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 013132969831 |
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Customer Reviews of Chocolate War
A disturbingly realistic view of collusion in cruelty... Archie Costello is one of the cruelist characters in the so-called "literature for young adults" genre. He is an accurately rendered, charismatic sadist who is brought to the screen convincingly by Wally Ward in this nearly-faithful adaptation of Robert Comier's fascinating study in the "collusion in cruelty" of supposedly good people. Robert Comier cuts no slack in his story...the bad guys win and the consequences are even worse in the sequel, Beyond the Chocolate War. The film (with its avenging angel ending), however, is neither sacchrine, nor as tidy as some viewers contend. True, Archie...anti-hero, to the max...gets his. But Jerry Renault, the would-be hero of the film (who gets hell beat out of him in the novel) does not escaped unscathed by the "Something Wicked" that has come the way of Trinity High School in the carnival guise of a fund raising candy sale. The Chocolate War is that...Archie knows how to punch the buttons of cowardice and fear. The film...like the book...is unpleasant, but engaging because of the truths it posits about human nature. Ignore the bogus ending of the film and you'll be left with an ugly taste in your mouth which certainly isn't chocolate but might serve as the necessary medicine of reality. Recommended with caveats!!!
Good, but the ending spoiled it.
I watched this movie after reading the book it was based on (also called The Chocolate War). The movie was good. The people who played Brother Leon and Archie Costello did terrific jobs, although tall and thin John Glover didn't look at all like the book's Leon. The dialogue was played almost word-for-word from the book. But the ending spoiled it all. The Chocolate War, the book, had a very unhappy ending in which Jerry was beaten to a bloody pulp by Emile Janza. In this case Archie drew the black marble and it was him that was defeated. Fine for some, but not for me, because I prefer the book's unhappy ending. The director of the movie attempted to make it a little unhappy after Archie was defeated, but it was a half-hearted effort and missed the mark. I wish they had just stuck with the ending they already had.
ANOTHER LOOK
HE FELL INTO A VAT OF CHOCOLATE.....
AND HE YELLED "FIRE!"
ASKED WHY HE YELLED FIRE,
HE SAID "WHO WOULD HELP ME IF I YELLED 'CHOCOLATE'"