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Giulio (Elio Germano) is a film student sucked into a murder plot that mirrors several stories from his favorite director, Alfred Hitchcock. When a woman in the next building is murdered, Giulio suspe...( read more 
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MCT:September 29, 2008jeez.... dario....man... this was just....a let down.... he needs to go back to his roots and just go nuts... its a good for a watch and thats it....just to see how bad dario went down
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MCT:June 22, 2008See, I really like Hitchcock, but I didn't really like this movie. How the hell does that work?
This is the second in my Argento set and boy, did it just take a sharp nosedive from Phenomena. First of all, I'd like to address that it looks like it is shot on video or mini-DV. End of the day, it looks like a PBS or a BBC special, which really turns me off. There's a reason I don't watch PBS movies, so why would I want my purchased film to look like that. Along with the PBS look is the PBS sound. I was planning on commenting on this later, but since I'm talking about the sound as it is, you'd think that a movie homaging Hitchcock throughout would try to have a bombastic, Bernard Hermann-esque sound and feel to it? Only once did they try to imitate it, but using a synthesizer is a poor substitute to a full orchestra.
Anyway, I've seen almost every Hitchcock movie ever made. I love Hitchcock and when I knew this movie was coming up, I was excited as all get out. But the execution is just a little lame. This is more of a gorefest with a more-than-slight nod to Rear Window and Strangers on a Train. The thing is, most people pay tribute to Rear Window. It's been done a thousand times and never as well as the original. I am impressed with the Strangers on a Train allusion, but I feel that's more pretentious and snobby to make constant reference to a movie that few have seen. Yes, it is one of Hitchcock's real classics, but most people haven't seen it. You're lucky to find people who have seen Psycho,The Birds, or Vertigo...but Strangers on a Train? No chance. I also loved how that video store had a run on Strangers on a Train. I was pushing that movie on my recommendations shelf for weeks with no success. Do you really think that three people are going to be waiting for other people to return it (unless it was for a class)?
Now to address more of the movie. I thought that a Hitchcock homage movie would really try to do more than simply reference plots of Hitchcock's movies. This really is Argento making his own movie without the camera work of Hitchcock. Rather, there's a lot of brutality and "easy" shots compared to what Hitchcock presented in his film. Also, his protagonist is just a weirdo puss. I'm sorry, that Vespa chase (only the Italians) was absurd and unnecessarily long. Most of the movie, the character scrapes by on luck alone and leads to a really lame Saboteur homage at the end.
Really, the movie is terribly forced and needed a lot of work to be pulled off. The beginning really has nothing to do with the rest of the film outside of the fact that it establishes that the character has been nosy all of his life. (Honestly, you could have picked that up from the film itself without this bizarre sidestory.) Also, the cover image has nothing to really do with the film. It is a creepy image that is actually scarier than the film is as a whole. I'm sorry, Dario Argento fans out there, but this movie kind of is a dud. I'll soon be reviewing The Card Player. I'm sorry, but I don't think I'll be writing home about this director any time soon. -
MCT:February 12, 2008Entertaining, cheap, made for tv homage from the italian pupil Dario Argento to the genuine master of cinema. cool nods to many of his masterpieces.
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MCT:January 9, 2008
Decent endeavor movie by Dario Argento. Have a few clever twists into the (albeit muddled) plot and you got a surprisingly decent thriller.
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MCT:October 18, 2007
Entertaining, if slightly predictable but still pretty good stuff. A good tribute to the master Hitchcock.
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