Year of the Gun

1991

Action / Romance / Thriller

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 27% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 27% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 3202 3.2K

journalist based on novel or book politics terrorist italy 1970s

Plot summary

American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend must struggle to stay alive.

Director

John Frankenheimer Photo
John Frankenheimer

Top cast

Rossana Canghiari Photo
Rossana Canghiari as Woman at Airport
John Pankow Photo
John Pankow as Italo Bianchi
Sharon Stone Photo
Sharon Stone as Alison King
Nazzareno Natale Photo
Nazzareno Natale as Cop
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1 GB
1204*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 52 min
Seeds 1
1.87 GB
1792*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 52 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by neil-douglas2010 7 / 10

Take away the leads and you've got a decent movie

Two things didn't help this film, the first might've been the channel I watched it on, no subtitles for the Italian parts. The second was McCarthy and Stone as leads, they try hard but in a serious subject like this they play it as if it's Douglas / Turner in Romancing the Stone 3.On the plus side the scenes in Roma are very well done, especially the demonstration scenes and you do get a hint of what it was like in the Italian capital during the terrorist happenings.The other thing about the movie is it tells about what happened to Aldo Moro, the kidnapped Italian PM, but nothing of what happened after. I've tried looking into this but it could take a while.A decent film even with it's limitations.
Reviewed by richardchatten 7 / 10

Memento Moro

A good title, but more applicable to 1981, since that was the year that saw attempts to assassinate the President of the United States and the Pope.This film sounds of interest on paper for the prospect of seeing John Frankenheimer address the abduction of Aldo Moro. It doesn't stint on the gunplay (one particularly nasty moment depicts a horse getting caught in the crossfire) but there's even more talk (some of it in Italian); while the old dynamism that brought us 'The Manchurian Candidate' is sorely lacking, and Andrew McCarthy makes a very passive hero.In compensation Sharon Stone brings a feral power to the role of an American photojournalist who never lets a little aggro get in the way of a photo opportunity. While it concludes with one of Frankenheimer's trademark closeups of a TV screen.
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