Mel Gibson gives his greatest performance to date in this 1983 Peter Weir film masterpiece as Guy Hamilton,a tenacious but immature Australian journalist covering the overthrow of Jarkata President Sukarno set during the 1965 Indonesian coup.
Filmed in Australia and the Philippines was the first film where dwarf Linda Hunt won best supporting actress playing a male photographer Billy Kwan who was also Guy's contact. Sigourney Weaver gives a commendable performance as British embassy officer Jill Hunt,though it's rather perplexing that she drops the Brit accent in some scene.
Both actors evoke a marvelous onscreen chemistry,Weaver even quiped of the much shorter Mel ''The sexiest man I ever met''.The only flaw is why Weir didn't employ a surround soundtrack which would have given the film more spark.The films soundtrack could easily be construed as a Vangelis composition and indeed sounds very simular to his Chariots of fire released two years earlier,but was veteran film composer Maurice Jarre [King of Kings,Lawrence of Arabia] and laudably executed.
Both actors evoke a marvelous onscreen chemistry,Weaver even quiped of the much shorter Mel ''The sexiest man I ever met''.The only flaw is why Weir didn't employ a surround soundtrack which would have given the film more spark.The films soundtrack could easily be construed as a Vangelis composition and indeed sounds very simular to his Chariots of fire released two years earlier,but was veteran film composer Maurice Jarre [King of Kings,Lawrence of Arabia] and laudably executed.
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