Burn! (1969) Full Movie

Thomas K 11 Apr 2014

One of those films that don't really add up but still lingers in the memory and that's largely because of Brando's huge and very entertaining presence.

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David M 25 Apr 2011

Marlon Brando says this is his best work, and favorite film. I thought he was very good in it, but I felt the film was a train wreck in the editing department. I could nary follow the events or narrative of the film, it was clunky at best, and almost incoherent at worse. It basically amounts to a series of scenes that make some astute observations about colonialism, slavery, and revolutions. They are relevant, but dated, as they seem common sense now. Brando creates a distinct character, and he is Brando, so it is obviously going to be a superb depiction on his part, but the character is rarely given anything of real interest to do or say. HIs upper-class Englishmen is appropriately regal, and Brando brings his trademark effeminate touch to the character, and a good accent (in his mumbling way.) This was when he was being ostracized from Hollywood for his on set behavior, politics, and altogether attitude. An interesting failure.

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Bruce B 01 Mar 2009

An outstanding film, one of the unheard of Brando films, a young Brando at that. I came across a review in Shock Cinema Magazine the reason I got this film, and it was everything I expected by the review. Brando plays a agent for the British Government in the 1800's and he starts a revolt against the Portuguese colony in the Caribbean. This film made in 1968 was I am sure something seen in very few movie houses, maybe underground or 42nd Street, but I doubt it was in the local Movie Mart. How does one rate Evaristo Márquez performance, there is not enough stars. Over all the movie is worth 5 stars.

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Ryan M 21 Mar 2007

Brando said more than once that this was his best acting on film. I tend to agree. It's not a great movie, but it's a good one.

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Karl S 15 Sep 2008

Perhaps most interesting for refusing to grant Brando--who stands in for the West at its most capable and self-reflexive--any redemption or understanding, and for 'Jose Dolores'' refusal in his final imprisonment to talk to any white man, even while he builds the next generation of revolutionaries. In so doing, Pontecorvo prevents us from daydreamy identification with the revolutionaries; that (and also the *complete* elimination of women) is among the chief differences from Battle for Algiers. I understand Burn was re-released in 2004 in the original Italian (w/ a dubbed Brando) and with 20 more minutes of stuff. I'm very curious to know what happens in those bits.

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