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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is Fritz Lang's sequel to his flamboyant Dr. Mabuse two-part epic of the 1920s, this time adding subtle use of sound to the creepy effects developed for the e...( read more 
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MCT:September 3, 2008Mabuse seems like an espionage villain, one who is mad and a genius and believes his genius a salvation for everyone. I love the character a lot, what he believes in and found it relevant today as well. I think most of Lang's talkie films from UFA hold up the best today even if the silent era were his masterpieces. The idea of this is very pervasive especially in the use of words, the use of thoughts like 'gambler' and 'hypnotic'. There is a lot than meet the eye in those terms and in this film as a whole, man's collusion with forces higher and more appealing.
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MCT:April 25, 2008
Dr. Mabuse is a James Bond Villain long before Bond. Better action thriller than much of what is made today.
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MCT:March 25, 2008
"the testament of dr. mabuse" is fritz lang's perverse thriller upon mental hypnotization as manipulative apparatus of evil saboteurs.
dr. mabuse is a deranged assylum patient who scrabbles abstract manuscripts to puzzle his patriachist who descends as his surrogate puppet headleader of underground destructive activities. eventually evil is infectious in its ceaseless delivering.
the scene of patriachist being possessed by dr. mabuse's evil spirit is macabrely spooky. mabuse with piercing sight and slanted sharp nose penetrates into the doctor's soul, and the envirnoment is hauntingly surrounded with the disfigured skulls of abnormal sinister men upon the shelf as specimen. one evil passes forward another as the vicious circle that is a metaphor of nazi's brain-rinsing control over the germany.
lang transcends the patriachist/inmate reversion into a mythical analogy of social criticism, and the case pf dr. mabuse would be one of early cinematic human-beast who pestles the world in his absolute demonology that is satan conquers all in the end, far more sinister than the anthony hopkins' "cannibal lecter". -
MCT:December 4, 2007
cool early german crime thriller expressing the common theme of man's anxiety in the industrial age. very good special effects for 1933! mabuse reminds me of a bond villain
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MCT:November 30, 2007
Legend has it Joseph Goebbels held a meeting with Fritz Lang to tell him 2 things: 1) That he was banning this movie, and 2) that the Nazi Party wanted to hire Lang as their propaganda filmmaker. Lang left Germany that night. If that story is true then Nazis had a way of banning amazing works of art. The first 5 minutes of this movie prove its brilliance, as do the special effects and the final chase scene, which was actually pretty scary with the way the trees were lit. But the scene where an insect-eyed Mabuse possesses Baum is one of the scariest things I've ever seen. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse started off slow (between that and the subtitles I was done in before the first 45 minutes before finally getting through the whole thing on a 3rd try) but I'll be damned if that last hour isn't worth it.
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MCT:October 17, 2007You want a vision of a godless hell? Ask a German. Lang's 1933 still exceptionally modern masterpiece shows us a society on the verge of breakdown subject to the whims of fanatics and deluded messiahs. No change there then.
The performances are mostly great - Wernicke particularly so, although the main female character is very annoying. Some of the setpieces are fantastic and the surreal air of the film even suggests Lynch at times. A visionary film and one of the finest of the 30's.
Postscript - banned by the Nazis and claimed by Lang to be the film responsible for him to be headhunted by Goebbels as the then new head of UFA. -
MCT:October 16, 2007
it's a classic, no doubt about it! i was really surprised by the quality of the whole film. for a 1933 movie, it's really well done and the plot is very interesting. the effects are greatly achieved and the cast is superb. my favorite from fritz lang's so far!
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MCT:June 27, 2007
Obra maestra de fritz lang donde recrea la historia del doctor Mbuse un experto en recrear distintos persoajes y que finalmente termina engaņando por su propio alterego, es impresionante.
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MCT:March 6, 2007
Fritz Lang's 1933 crime thriller is a prophetic message of the industrial, dehumanizing horror that the 20th century still has in store for the world. The film resolution and special effects are remarkable for its time.
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MCT:December 5, 2006
9/10
Wow this film really took me by surprise. It excited me throughout in ways Lang's previous film, M, only accomplished at its climax; with a more socially relevant (today) screenplay as well as a more intensely original and metaphorically charged use of sound. A fantastic piece of cinema, definitely my favorite of Lang's films (so far). -
MCT:August 11, 2006
I really liked this one. Probably my favorite Lang movie thus far. I liked the story and the deliverance of it. The resolution was a little weaker than I wanted it to be. But overall the film is really good and strong.
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MCT:July 16, 2006
My #34 film of all time. This is so overlooked, but is so incredible, and just such good telling of the famous Dr. Mabuse.
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MCT:March 26, 2006
A crime thriller with sinister undertones! Nice foreboding moments and a good plot help create this Fritz Lang classic.
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