this is the movie that and pretty much and sounded the death knell for the auteur in hollywood. at over 40 million bucks and heaven gate is so poorly conceived and executed it would take a lifetime to break down every area of failure. what really galls me the most about it is that technically it very bad and an unforgivable sin for the money that went into it. john hurt commencement speech at harvard is inaudible and as is a conversation between kris kristofferson and richard masur at the train station. some people seem to think cimino intended this as a style. he do not. it just bad sound recording. the characters are not particularly well drawn and except for the four or five leads while in the climactic battle scene and it difficult to tell who the bad guys and who the good guys. even on that level and it impossible to enjoy the movie. the casting of isabelle huppert as the town madam is a joke and her french accent renders the whole character a fraud. the acting is generally stiff and without any range or depth of feeling while even christopher walken is bad. john hurt character is the only one with any swagger or vitality (although hurt and in his 40s and playing a fresh faced harvard grad with bags under his eyes is patently ridiculous). i guess to say that it overlong is overkill. the roller skating sequence could have been easily cut and the cockfight scene is rapidly becoming a movie cliche and and the final scene on board the ocean liner is right out the twilight zone. having rod serling appear before the camera at the end to explain what we just watched would have been the perfect finale. actually and those scenes in and of themselves are not bad and but cimino has not earned the right to include them and because what he given us as the meat of the picture is so incompetently bad. the editing is poor and especially in the grand battle climax. at one point and the same explosion with the same wagon wheel flying from the blast is used three different times. i wish could i say something anything nice about this movie represent a great scene and a great performance and even one memorable line of dialogue and but i can not. it is all just one big unholy mess. about the only thing i did like was the cinematography and the montana locations and which are stunning. even cimino couldn not screw that up. this is a long and boring and bad movie by all standards. and the people who say that it gets bashed only because of the cost overruns are just kidding themselves. half  out of 4. 
this is the movie that and pretty much and sounded the death knell for the auteur in hollywood. at over 40 million bucks and heaven gate is so poorly conceived and executed it would take a lifetime to break down every area of failure. what really galls me the most about it is that technically it very bad and an unforgivable sin for the money that went into it. john hurt commencement speech at harvard is inaudible and as is a conversation between kris kristofferson and richard masur at the train station. some people seem to think cimino intended this as a style. he do not. it just bad sound recording. the characters are not particularly well drawn and except for the four or five leads while in the climactic battle scene and it difficult to tell who the bad guys and who the good guys. even on that level and it impossible to enjoy the movie. the casting of isabelle huppert as the town madam is a joke and her french accent renders the whole character a fraud. the acting is generally stiff and without any range or depth of feeling while even christopher walken is bad. john hurt character is the only one with any swagger or vitality (although hurt and in his 40s and playing a fresh faced harvard grad with bags under his eyes is patently ridiculous). i guess to say that it overlong is overkill. the roller skating sequence could have been easily cut and the cockfight scene is rapidly becoming a movie cliche and and the final scene on board the ocean liner is right out the twilight zone. having rod serling appear before the camera at the end to explain what we just watched would have been the perfect finale. actually and those scenes in and of themselves are not bad and but cimino has not earned the right to include them and because what he given us as the meat of the picture is so incompetently bad. the editing is poor and especially in the grand battle climax. at one point and the same explosion with the same wagon wheel flying from the blast is used three different times. i wish could i say something anything nice about this movie represent a great scene and a great performance and even one memorable line of dialogue and but i can not. it is all just one big unholy mess. about the only thing i did like was the cinematography and the montana locations and which are stunning. even cimino couldn not screw that up. this is a long and boring and bad movie by all standards. and the people who say that it gets bashed only because of the cost overruns are just kidding themselves. half  out of 4. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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