Reunited Kate and Leo lost on “Revolutionary Road”

The ill-fated lovers of “Titanic” reunite in “Revolutionary Road,” but this time Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet find their characters run aground in a disastrous mid-1950s marriage.

In the bad-marriage movie sweepstakes, “Revolutionary Road” is no “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” But when sheer nastiness seizes its characters, the vindictiveness and emotional damage are breathtaking. Here’s the real difference: In “Virginia Woolf,” George and Martha are locked into a symbiotic, disturbingly needy relationship that absolutely feed off their acidic battles. But for “Revolutionary Road’s” Frank and April Wheeler, you wonder: Why don’t they just get a divorce?

- from Reuters