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WHAT WAS YOUR * RATING THEN ?


mine was 1/10 - i think this is possibly the worst movie I've ever seen (and I've seen a few stinkers)- what's your opinion though ?

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Good scenes are the beginning and the end, whole movie is boring.

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I haven't seen it in a while, but I came to this board because the original is on TCM. I give it an 8/10--I thought it was a great character study of someone obsessed with what he couldn't have. And we are shown the roots of that obsession go back to his childhood. Seeing a psychopath is one thing, but being given an insight into the inner workings of the psychosis is intriguing.

Nobody gets to be a cowboy forever.

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I gave it a 7. I thought the two leads were pretty bland, and Sean Young in particular gave a seemingly "phoned in" performance. They also lacked any real on screen chemistry. That said, the strength of Ira Levin's source material still managed to shine through. The movie easily held my intrest for it's 90 minute running time, and I enjoyed the poetic irony of Jonathan's obsession with the Carlsson family both beginning and ending on the same stretch of train tracks.

Overall I found it to be a competant thriller a cut above the usual tripe in this much revisited formula.

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An 8. I thought it was good. Totally suprised that most people here don't like it. I have yet to see the original for comparison.

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6/10 for some of the atmosphere.

A Superman without trunks isn't worth watching or reading about.

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