Review – Havana

Imagine Casablanca attacked by two muggers – one with a stupid stick and the other with a boring stick – and you’ve got some idea what’s in store for you here. An aging gambler (Robert Redford) looking for one final big score finds himself caught up in the chaos of Cuba in the waning days of 1958. He falls in love with a woman (Lena Olen) who’s married to a rebel leader (Raul Julia, appearing relatively briefly in the picture) who isn’t as dead as she thought he was. The studio clearly had a lot of money to spend on the production, making it a double shame that nobody paid any attention to what happened when they tried a disturbingly similar trick with Sean Connery years earlier. See if desperate