(Credit IMDb) An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
I wouldn't call this movie great by any means, but considering that Argento can't make a decent film to save his life this days, this was a perfectly acceptable film. I don't mean to sound disrespectful. I love Dario Argento. I truly do. He is capable of being one of the great horror minds, but he has succumbed to stuff that is below everybody's standards. Argento's stylish direction is fantastic, the lighting is great, and it has some really good stalk sequences as well, especially the train sequence in the beginning of the movie. Gore hounds will be fairly satisfied with this movie. We get a weird flute murder that rules. A nasty pen stabbing in the head, somebody's head gets pounded into a wall, and teeth are knocked out, and more. I was quite satisfied with Argento's brutality. The acting was decent, considering some people were dubbed. Max Von Sydow is pure class, and I thought he was great. His character is written with a lot of substance behind it, and I managed to get behind him. You'll feel for him. The rest of the cast are mostly dubbed, so I can't really comment on them much. I will say this movie has a good twist ending, which makes sense.
Final Thoughts: It beats watching Giallo, Card Player, and other average films on Argento's resume these days. It's not perfect, but it does have enough flashes of brilliance to make it worth your while
6.3/10
I wouldn't call this movie great by any means, but considering that Argento can't make a decent film to save his life this days, this was a perfectly acceptable film. I don't mean to sound disrespectful. I love Dario Argento. I truly do. He is capable of being one of the great horror minds, but he has succumbed to stuff that is below everybody's standards. Argento's stylish direction is fantastic, the lighting is great, and it has some really good stalk sequences as well, especially the train sequence in the beginning of the movie. Gore hounds will be fairly satisfied with this movie. We get a weird flute murder that rules. A nasty pen stabbing in the head, somebody's head gets pounded into a wall, and teeth are knocked out, and more. I was quite satisfied with Argento's brutality. The acting was decent, considering some people were dubbed. Max Von Sydow is pure class, and I thought he was great. His character is written with a lot of substance behind it, and I managed to get behind him. You'll feel for him. The rest of the cast are mostly dubbed, so I can't really comment on them much. I will say this movie has a good twist ending, which makes sense.
Final Thoughts: It beats watching Giallo, Card Player, and other average films on Argento's resume these days. It's not perfect, but it does have enough flashes of brilliance to make it worth your while
6.3/10