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While based on a real case, it is sort of like Rear Window meets Fright Night.....only very boring. I sped thru the movie.
A curious thing about that case, John List, is that I had it confused with that of Bradford Bishop who I saw on a wanted poster around 1976 when my family went to Big Bend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Bishop In that case, Bishop was a foreign service officer, knew a few languages, and hence, the situation would classify as a spy case and I thought I was watching about him. The odd thing there is in that case, there was a ballet dancer involved......with an injured foot. So another cross over.
When it comes to movies and TV, a story about people watching TV tends to be a rarity for after all, we don't want to watch about people watching TV. Hence a thing that rather makes this flick a 3.0.
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Decently interesting Brit mystery though it seems a little confused in which way the crime investigation goes; the side social life is much more interesting. One thing to it is that if I was a Brit, I'd be dead meat for it seems that unless your life, your home is **** & Span, they will burst in to try to connect you up with whatever crime they are investigating. A 6.7.
Two parter, 90 minutes each. I had seen part of the first part at Mom's when it was on TV, all those years ago. All in all, pretty good...and subtitles certainly do help. One potential downer, though, is that at times watching Shaw's portrayal of Dalgliesh is like watching Kitchen's Foyle. I guess it just comes from watching so many Brit mysteries. A 7.7.
I was into it for the first half but it lost me the rest of the way. Too long and a lot of those "is it real or a dream" scenarios. IMO, some horror movies become overly ambitious; this one and Us comes to mind.
A forgettable movie that I wish I had not forgotten since I watched it twice. Still, it has its points if you take it as a flick that shows that when the aliens show up, the Earth is toast! (reading the imdb reviews, quite a few say a rip off of Independence Day. Having never seen that flick, I will take their word for it.) For the first hour, that's the story and even though there isn't much of a connection between one part and another, at the very least, it is not boring. Not sure what it is but it is not boring. It is only in the last 3rd when they realized that they have to bring a movie to a close that it becomes truly tedious and those are the scenes where memory returned. Laying grounds for a sequel that was thankfully never made, it is another flick that has a big (sort of) name to it and while Charles Napier does have a decent role, he is gone about in the first 3rd. For its comedy relief, it's a 2.0.
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As a western, it has the classics with bandits, the good guys, and a few trains. One must remember it is a comedy of a sort only....having been in the service, it is still painful to see a senior officer as much of jerk as that! Telly does a good job in playing Pancho, assuming that one knows nothing about him which I don't, for at times it does shine through that I am not seeing Telly but just an infamous bandit. A 5.6.
Ugh. The most boring, bland "psychological" "horror" movie I've ever seen. The actors did what they could with it, I guess. The storyline, the dialogue, the "shock" moments... Bor-ing.
Well, my next few hours are accounted for. AMC is showing "The Fugitive" (1993) and I have no choice but to watch. It's one of my favorite all-time movies. Tommy Lee Jones is fantastic it. Harrison Ford is, as always, very good in it. The train crash scene is incredible. 4.5
Quite impressive. It must have been spectucular at the theatres, full deserving of the 10 minutes of end credits to prepare one's self to step out into the light of reality again. A 10.
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