Monday, October 21, 2013

Parting is such sweet sorrow

When the end credits rolled - apart from being happy it ended - I felt a bit ashamed for the director Brian De Palma. The guy has made so many downright brilliant movies and now, as if Mission to Mars wasn't enough, he has this garbage on his résumé. This was a whole lot of absolutely nothing, an erotic thriller without eroticism and thrills, a mere Roman Polanski and Alfred Hitchcock rip-off at best.

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