Review of Desperate Hours (1990) by Roger Ebert for Chicago Sun-Times — 29 Aug 2005
Michael Cimino's Desperate Hours is an attempt to take a 1950s crime classic and remake it by turning up the heat, but Cimino has set the heat too high, and the result is an overwrought melodrama with dialogue even a True Detective editor would question.
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This review of Desperate Hours (1990) was written by Roger Ebert and published by Chicago Sun-Times on 29 August 2005.
Desperate Hours has generally received mixed reviews.
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