The Passenger (1975)

This is the third Antonioni film I've seen.

The first two I saw were L'AVVENTURA and BLOW UP.

I must admit--without Jack Nicholson's fantastic commentary, I would have missed a lot of the story itself--which I found to be implausible.

SPOILERS:

The premise is that a combat documentarian switches places with a man who just died for no explicable reason.

As my thinking goes--most movies fail at the point of concept.

And I'm a big fan of Antonioni.

That being said--beyond the weak premise--there are some troubling and noteworthy experiments by Antonioni; the most shocking of which is real documentary footage of what appears to be a military-led public execution.

I also had problems with the new love interest--she instantly helped the hero out of the blue--both of them seemingly united because they were inexplicably escaping their past.