Great Film overall

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Huston, Brando, Taylor, repressed homosexuality . . . I was definitely curious. This isn't a bad film but at the same time its not a great one either. I did however find it interesting. The story was thin but kept me engaged and I enjoyed seeing Brando and Taylor together at the later stages of their careers. Definitely worth checking out for true film lovers.

A US Army base somewhere in the South, late-1940s/early-1950s. A quiet, relatively unimportant base, it is the model of serenity. On this base we have Major Weldon Penderton (played by Marlon Brando), a lecturer in military tactics and strategy. He's married to Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor). There's also Lt. Colonel Morris Langton (Brian Keith) and his wife Alison (Julie Harris). On the surface, everything appears normal and uneventful. However, dig a bit deeper and you'll see that there is no passion in the Pendertons' marriage - they barely tolerate each other. Mrs Penderton is having an affair with Lt. Col. Langton. Mrs Langton has mental issues. Then there's the strange, voyeuristic, repressed Private Williams (Robert Forster)...Directed by John Huston, starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. Three icons of movie making - surely a recipe for success? Well, not entirely.Slow moving, with brief sparks of intrigue. this movie never kicks into a higher gear. It was never entirely boring but never fully engaging either. The movie seemed set up for a profound ending but the ending was reasonably predictable and inevitable.While there are some decent themes, especially involving repression of feelings and desires, these are never explored too thoroughly. Interesting enough, but not overly engaging or satisfying.Solid performances by Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Brian Keith, Julie Harris and Robert Forster. On the negative side we have the character Anacleto, played by Zorro David. An incredibly badly and irritatingly drawn character, badly played with dialogue badly dubbed.

"Reflections" has a fantastic cast. Brando, Taylor, Brian Keith, Robert Forster? Hard to find a better group of actors. But "Reflections" fails on almost every level. Taylor, as usual, looks lovely and plays her part well. Forster isn't given much to work with but does a good job with what he has. Brando? Well, Brando walks around looking confused and bewildered for most of the film and is totally wasted here. The look on his face after the horse beating incident is supposed to be "horrified" but comes off more along the lines of "chronic brain damage". I don't think "laughing out loud" was quite the effect Brando and Huston were going for, but that's the effect it had on me. Throughout the film the characters and their relationships are almost totally unbelievable. The only worthwhile character with any depth in the entire film is Brian Keith's Lt. Col. Langdon, who is struggling with his depression and loneliness in his relationship with his wife, ably played by Julie Harris, who is mentally unstable after the death of her child. John Huston's direction is competent and well done but his choice of the "goldtone" filter on every scene was odd and distracting. The ending manages to be shocking, unsatisfying and ridiculous at the same time. Quite a feat. I'm the kind of person who will quit a film if it doesn't hold my interest. And for whatever reason "Reflections In A Golden Eye" kept my interest. I will probably never watch it again but I am glad I saw it once.

There's big trouble at a southern Army base: The colonel (Marlon Brando) is a closeted wacko married to a beautiful but cruel woman (Elizabeth Taylor); she's having an affair with his best friend (Brian Keith) while a mysterious, horse-loving, enlisted man is a freaky prowler.This story of endless domestic turmoil is in the style of Tennessee Williams' work, but the script is confusing, shallow, and pointless with no likable characters to root for. Taylor's shrill, girlish voice is grating as is Brando's drawl which is so bad I needed subtitles. Brian Keith and Julie Harris, as his wife, are good but he's dull and she's spaced-out and dependent on a weird houseboy. The movie was originally filmed entirely in a dark, golden color which got old, fast. Also, the story is set in the 40s, but some of Taylor's wardrobe, make-up, and hairdos are right out of the sixties and her post-Cleopatra-look.This is an incredibly disjointed and slow-moving film that meanders around some pretty dysfunctional people without ever addressing their shortcomings straight on. Taylor and Brando's acting can only be described as hammy and I was more confused than entertained.