The Hostage of Europe (1989)
On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally.
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It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
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The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
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All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
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Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
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