Tony-Holmes
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Yes, Mr De Palma has done some good films, this one is however just lousy.
An 'homage' to Hitchcock? PERLEASE!!!
The great man would NEVER have permitted this abject nonsense to go out on film.
The hero is a nitwit (see the accurate brrr review).
Take the scene where he sees an intruder in the fantasy woman's home. What would everyone do -- call the cops, it's what they do. BUT this fool runs downstairs, runs what in film time seems to be several miles to the house (even though he can easily see through the windows?!) and while doing that he passes 2 guys, also running (why - they're not out jogging, are they?!).
When he gets there, he has to break in, the other guys are apparently several hours behind (?!), and when he does that he gets attacked by her dog, who has never detected the burglar getting in or moving about???
It reminded me of comedy skits on 'horror' films like Scream, when nobody ever turns the lights on. Strictly for those with an IQ roughly =shoe size.
An 'homage' to Hitchcock? PERLEASE!!!
The great man would NEVER have permitted this abject nonsense to go out on film.
The hero is a nitwit (see the accurate brrr review).
Take the scene where he sees an intruder in the fantasy woman's home. What would everyone do -- call the cops, it's what they do. BUT this fool runs downstairs, runs what in film time seems to be several miles to the house (even though he can easily see through the windows?!) and while doing that he passes 2 guys, also running (why - they're not out jogging, are they?!).
When he gets there, he has to break in, the other guys are apparently several hours behind (?!), and when he does that he gets attacked by her dog, who has never detected the burglar getting in or moving about???
It reminded me of comedy skits on 'horror' films like Scream, when nobody ever turns the lights on. Strictly for those with an IQ roughly =shoe size.
I stumbled across this rather odd film quite by chance, 2025 on a TV channel that may number its viewers in hundreds?? ('Together TV').
The other reviews have done an excellent job describing it, though I can repeat that the Brit film business was on its knees at the time, with the odd exception, kept alive by a succession of the hugely popular Carry On series, and the acting stalwarts relying on TV to pay the bills (& panto perhaps?!) with the occasional appearance in say the 'Confessions' sex comedy series (& the assorted copycats). This movie would be like those, but unusually has no attempted comedy, it's played straight.
As has been pointed out, lead actress Georgina Ward got shamed out of a bid to be an MP due to lurid photos of her in this film. Which seems odd, looking back, the later wife in Allo Allo was in this, as was Windsor Davies, who had great sitcom successes. Acting royalty like Helen Mirren and Joanna Lumley also appeared in films that required their chests to get an airing, didn't harm their careers, hypocrisy rules OK (especially given the assorted crooks and perverts that have had seats in the Commons and Lords over the years?!!).
However, my major surprise was on seeing this IMDB listing, and discovering that Hazel Adair helped write it, with one Kent Walton also named. "Who" you may ask? Well, to many now elderly viewers, Walton was the famous commentator for years on the Sat afternoon coverage (ITV) of wrestling (70s, 80s?), telling us how Mick McManus had Jackie Pallo in trouble with a Boston Crab at the Fairfield Halls (Croydon), before they'd do it all again next week at Harringay Arena?! Seems very strange, but perhaps wrestling is just another form of screenplay with its own mini-dramas each week?!
The other reviews have done an excellent job describing it, though I can repeat that the Brit film business was on its knees at the time, with the odd exception, kept alive by a succession of the hugely popular Carry On series, and the acting stalwarts relying on TV to pay the bills (& panto perhaps?!) with the occasional appearance in say the 'Confessions' sex comedy series (& the assorted copycats). This movie would be like those, but unusually has no attempted comedy, it's played straight.
As has been pointed out, lead actress Georgina Ward got shamed out of a bid to be an MP due to lurid photos of her in this film. Which seems odd, looking back, the later wife in Allo Allo was in this, as was Windsor Davies, who had great sitcom successes. Acting royalty like Helen Mirren and Joanna Lumley also appeared in films that required their chests to get an airing, didn't harm their careers, hypocrisy rules OK (especially given the assorted crooks and perverts that have had seats in the Commons and Lords over the years?!!).
However, my major surprise was on seeing this IMDB listing, and discovering that Hazel Adair helped write it, with one Kent Walton also named. "Who" you may ask? Well, to many now elderly viewers, Walton was the famous commentator for years on the Sat afternoon coverage (ITV) of wrestling (70s, 80s?), telling us how Mick McManus had Jackie Pallo in trouble with a Boston Crab at the Fairfield Halls (Croydon), before they'd do it all again next week at Harringay Arena?! Seems very strange, but perhaps wrestling is just another form of screenplay with its own mini-dramas each week?!
I caught this episode, from the latest series, over the years I've seen some others, but I've never watched it regularly.
And it's lasted a very long time, but how much longer? Two differing reviews so far, from Dragon & Purple, one loved it. One hated it.
Well, I'm closer to the latter, I think it's run out of steam, just not that funny. They've had some great support cast, and in this one the woman from Beyond Paradise does her best, and Sally Bretton (in that too of course), well, I could watch her reading the phone book.
Lee Mack does his best, and he's great on that panel game show, but this looks and sounds like it's on life support.
Maybe it needs a gimmick, they could go to the seaside and run a B&B, Torquay perhaps? Oh, what's that, been done you say?
And it's lasted a very long time, but how much longer? Two differing reviews so far, from Dragon & Purple, one loved it. One hated it.
Well, I'm closer to the latter, I think it's run out of steam, just not that funny. They've had some great support cast, and in this one the woman from Beyond Paradise does her best, and Sally Bretton (in that too of course), well, I could watch her reading the phone book.
Lee Mack does his best, and he's great on that panel game show, but this looks and sounds like it's on life support.
Maybe it needs a gimmick, they could go to the seaside and run a B&B, Torquay perhaps? Oh, what's that, been done you say?