The only positive thing I can say about Midnight Express is that the acting of Brad Davis is superb. It's really too bad that such a promising actor had to die so soon. But the rest of the movie is a racist rant. When I first saw the movie I wondered how any respectable Turkish actor could play such roles as the insensitive judge or the incompetent lawyer. It was later that I found out that all the Turkish parts were played by other actors of different nationalities who weren't even speaking Turkish! Talk about realism! Midnight Express had the potential to be a great movie. Unfortunately, it is an amateurish work with glimmers of professionalism.
Review of Midnight Express
