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Storming The Beach

However shallow, Leonardo DiCaprio delivers a baptism of blood

A A A Comments (0) By Gregory Weinkauf Thursday, Feb 10 2000
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DiCaprio's youth works well, except in macho scenes.
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DiCaprio's youth works well, except in macho scenes.

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The Beach is a pretty cool movie in execution, with gorgeous photography (do more erotic scenes, Danny!), and whatever ecological crises ensued during its production do not appear on the screen. One could make a case that the characters' golly-gee wonder over a bit of white sand and blue water makes the reaction shots of Jurassic Park seem restrained. One could also posit that there's something genuinely psychotic about a young American man who can dismiss violent death as casually as Richard does. But this movie is about generating the illusion of depth for the multiplex, a slice of Sociology 101 set to a rave beat in the tropics. Aldous Huxley would have yawned, but most audiences will probably groove to it.

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