Review – Benito

Somebody must have told Antonio Banderas that making Reds got people to take Warren Beatty seriously. Otherwise why would he ever have agreed to star in a five-hour-long Italian movie about left-wing radicals in the first decade or two of the 20th century? Of course this is Reds with an evil twist: the protagonist is Benito Mussolini. So we get two DVDs worth of Mussolini’s early career as a leftist, only to have the show come to a screeching halt just as the story starts to get interesting. Honestly, if I want to spend hours listening to liberal radicals jabber on about the minutiae of their causes, I’ll go hang out with my dad and his friends. See if desperate