Simon bolivar biography liberator movie

A handsomely mounted, never-less-than conspicuously intelligent but ultimately too-conventional historical drama, “The Liberator” shoehorns the epic life of early 19th-century South American revolutionary Simón Bolivar into two hours of intermittently powerful cinema. 

The movie’s opening sequence gives the viewer all the movie’s strengths and weaknesses in sketch form.

On a dark night, a powerful man enters a guarded manse; the camera follows him from behind. A title tells the viewers that it’s 1828. The man hands his sword to one aide; hands a piece of laundry to a maid.

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Messages are delivered. Brief conversations are held, in Spanish and English. The man, an important military and political figure, finally gets to the room he’s looking for. A woman waits for him there. “Now I’ve got you,” the woman says, and the couple begins a clinch.

Simon bolivar biography liberator movie

But wait. The house is suddenly under siege. The man—yes, it’s Simón Bolivar—must leap from a window to escape. He tries to take the woman w