 See
Production NotesReviews:
Newsday:
"Showtime's electric
film, with seemingly disjointed scenes, coalesce into an arresting whole: intimate
moments, public spectacles, newsreel footage, even documentary testimony from real-life
witnesses blended with dramatic scenes...Peter Coyote provides vibrant contrast as
Milk."
LA Daily News:
"This Showtime film provocatively approaches
the story from the killer's point of view... Execution of Justice is a film of
many strengths, and just one of them is that it doesn't condescendingly deify Milk. In
fact, he's merely a supporting character. Peter Coyote essays Milk as smart, compassionate
and a little playful and refuses to romanticize his subject."
San Jose Mercury News:
"Execution of Justice can be
quite compelling, thanks largely to clever use of testimony from the trial and to several
terrific performances by the principle actors. Daly takes on the toughest role, that of
White, and does well in the part of a man who is all surface and no depth... Coyote is
persuasive as Milk, reminding viewers who have a rose-colored image of the man who became
a martyr to the gay community that Milk was very much a politician with complex
agendas."
San Francisco Examiner:
"Execution of Justice is a
powerful, moving adaption of Emily Mann's play... Credit Daly with a wonderful performance
that brings out the frustrated, pathetic nature of White... The film also gets a
viscerally real but all too brief glimpse of Milk, as portrayed by Peter Coyote."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
"A provocative, worthwhile
film...Haunting music and vivid backdrops frame the opening shots...Even those who know
the history will be drawn into the innovative way the saga is filmed...The unraveling of
his (White) life is portrayed in vivid performances by Daly, Coyote and Stephen
Young."
The Denver Post:
"The inventive movie is compelling and
well-acted... Daly appears convincing as White, a hollow man in an awful brown suit and
hair. Peter Coyote is credible as Milk... The focus here is the contrast between Milk's
focused, committed, passionate personality and White's ungrounded, unaware, uncertain
character."
San Francisco Chronicle:
" The best thing about Execution
of Justice is that it dares to make the bad guy, White, its protagonist, and then
scrupulously refuses to inflate him.... Daly is a better actor than that eternal Wings
credit could ever suggest... Daly is joined by Peter Coyote, who's pitch-perfect as
Milk."
The Advocate:
"Coyote captures not only Milk's
idealism and chutzpah but that rascally charm that helped him to reach
beyond the gay electorate."
PlanetOut.com:
"It's Peter (E.T.) Coyote as Milk who steals the show whenever
he's spotlighted. His Milk is a complex impersonation: a man of the
(gay) people who's ruthlessly ambitious yet never less than magnetic and
charming."
Images
Available on video
[ The
Official Peter
Coyote Web Site ]
|
