The Return 2024 Movie Review By Flixhd

If you want to know what's under that cassock, watch The Return (2024) starring Ralph Fiennes. Partly adapted from Homer's Odyssey, the ancient Greek epic poem, it's much more amazing than it sounds. Odysseus finally returns home after leaving his kingdom on the island of Ithaca 20 years ago to fight in the Trojan War. Instead of returning home a cheered, victorious hero, he washes up on the shore like an unnoticed drowned rat. Browse this movie on Flixhd movie.

He finds his homeland invaded by men who want to marry his wife Penelope, kill his son Telemachus, and devour everything and everyone. Can he save himself, his family, and his kingdom?

Fiennes may seem to be having a great year with two great films coming up in 2024, including The Conclave, but The Return is showing in a small number of screenings, usually one or two, at least in Massachusetts. So if you want to see it, don't wait. It probably won't be long. I rushed to the 10:45am screening, and unlike most movies shown on AMC, it started right at the advertised time, with almost no commercials or trailers. Don't be late! I missed the end credits and arrived to the part where Odysseus was lying face down on the rocky shore. For those who don't know the story, think of this as an unofficial, stripped-down Gladiator sequel that people who can't stand the campiness of Gladiator II (2024) were hoping for. Unfortunately, that means you don't like fun. Between the violence, there is a lot of lofty speeches, and unlike Gladiator, there is a fair amount of sex and nudity.

The Return is a revenge movie with a social message that war is bad. For those unfamiliar with Fiennes' work, many of his passions involve reinterpreting famous warriors for modern audiences. Rather than portraying role models of bravery on the battlefield, Fiennes tries to portray men who are torn apart from the inside, their souls in tatters, but who remain true to their mission. This is an example of "the best of both worlds": famous historical figures in Lawrence after Arabia, classic Shakespearean stars in Coriolanus, or even revisionist nonsense in The King's Man. Fiennes loves playing the typical downcast-mouthed distressed soldier, delivering a moral message while kicking everyone's ass. Imagine Liam Neeson with better acting skills, sadder and more realistic. As Odysseus, he's a veteran who returns home to hear the legends, only to be treated like a dog by the lower classes. Does this sound familiar? The role sees him return to his roots and perform full nudity, perhaps his first since Peter Greenaway's Macon's Baby (1993), but neither nude performance is sexy.

For the role, he goes back to his roots and gets completely naked. This may be his first time since Peter Greenaway's Macon's Baby (1993), but neither scene is sexy. For Odysseus, it's a rebirth coupled with the death of a man who won the war and was hailed as a hero. He was willing to accept insignificance and remain content to remain on the sidelines, living with the slaves, haunted by the horrors of war, especially as the sole survivor. Fiennes does it with his head held high and a toned physique. No fat, just muscle.

The Return manages to make a familiar story emotional and tense. This is a dystopian story where crime and corruption are rampant and Queen Penelope is under constant threat. It's entirely understandable that men from all over the world would be desperate to woo a woman like Binoche, but the film makes it clear that her choice is not about which suitor she pursues. No, she must choose a suitor or deal with violent, rape-hungry men. If the film has a flaw, it's that it sets Penelope's daily walk at night. In an atmosphere like this, women don't go out at night. This scene is constructed to serve two purposes: the infidelity of the supposed suitors and their servants, and her longing for her husband. At the end, the dual purpose of her loom is cleverly revealed; she is not just telling a story to delay the rose ceremony. The plot twist also gives Odysseus the opportunity to prove that he is simply built differently from the other men. She is a clever woman, but she cannot keep them down forever. Binoche plays Penelope with understandable anger, even after Odysseus turns up. After all, Odysseus put Penelope in danger and spent precious time trying to save her. No spoilers for a story told before Christ. Sorry, not sorry.

Plus, Penelope is a single mother trying to protect her foolish son. Are we sure the suitors don't want to kill Telemachus because he's a nuisance? The translation is not entirely successful, since here we find him as a cranky twenty-something, whereas in the original he is portrayed as a nobler, more down-to-earth character. When Eurycleia (Angela Molina), Odysseus's childhood nurse, his most faithful servant, and the interpreter of Penelope's anger, starts screaming at him, it's hard not to cheer loudly. Eurycleia is not a woman who abhors violence.