Recensioni di Metacritic

The Fortune Cookie is Billy Wilder's best picture since The Apartment, his funniest since Some Like It Hot.

On the surface it's a complete delight, with Matthau's relentlessly funny lines taking most of the honours, but underneath lies a disenchantment as bleak as The Apartment: amoral, misogynist characters (in Lemmon's case, literally spineless) racing through ever more futile efforts to outmanoeuvre each other.

Despite some minor flaws, The Fortune Cookie is a very satisfying film.

The Fortune Cookie is no more sunny--and, if possible, even less romantic--than Kiss Me, Stupid, Mr. Wilder's last film and a comedy of unrelieved vulgarity, but it has style and taste.

Wildly funny in spots, but nihilistic in the extreme.

Sometimes uproarious but overly sentimental. [14 July 2003, p.1D]

The Fortune Cookie still plays as funny. Not as funny as “One, Two, Three,” his grandest farce, or the more celebrated “Some Like It Hot.” Matthau makes it amusing. But there’s just a sliver of hope and the tiniest hint of “bittersweet” about it, something Wilder occasionally allowed into his screenplays.

Rarely has screen satire been so bleak or so mercilessly funny.

Generally amusing (often wildly so) but overlong.

A sour, visually ugly comedy from director Billy Wilder and his co-writer, I. A. L. Diamond, which gets worse as it goes along -- more cynical and more sanctimonious.