Kiefer Sutherland powers ‘The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial’
nypost.comthe 1954 big-screen classic starring Humphrey Bogart as Lieutenant Commander Philip Queeg, he of the nervously-twirled metal balls and questionable sanity.The movie premieres Oct.
6 on Paramount+ with Showtime (paramountplus.qflm.net/9WG5D0) — and Oct. 8 on Showtime (9 p.m.) — and features an all-star cast, including Kiefer Sutherland as Queeg and the late Lance Reddick, all of whom deliver bravura performances.
It’s akin to watching a riveting play filmed for the big (and small) screens. (“The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” premiered in early September at the Venice International Film Festival about a month after Friedkin died at the age of 87.)You’ll be absorbed from the opening scene through the final denouement: a drunken, on-point semi-soliloquy delivered by defense attorney Lt.
Barney Greenwald (Jason Clarke) that sums up the multi-layered emotions laid bare over the preceding 103 minutes. Friedkin, acclaimed for “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection,” among others, updates Herman Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by placing the incident in question in the Persian Gulf in December 2022 aboard the USS Caine, a minesweeper.
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