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« on: April 20, 2011, 03:00:47 PM »




This movie is awesome. totally awesome. Gregory Peck is suave and cool as hell even though he has amnesia. I'm utterly baffled as to why this isn't more well known and why the DVD was so modest and not Criterion collection or something.

As the film opens theres a blackout in an office building and all the employees are clowning around and trying to figure out what's going on. Especially Gregory Peck, who can't even figure out who he is. He goes back to his apartment and there are these gangsters following him around and also there's a hot girl he sees who tells him stuff he doesn't understand about "The Major" . All the while he is Gregory Peck and he's suave and eurodite to the hilt.

I guess this is somewhere betwen "The Parallax View" and "Momento" . Sounds pretty combustible eh? It was made in 1965 though before all that stuff. Walter Matheu is good as a detective guy, the hot chick is good as the hot chick. Quincy Jones of all people does the music which is old fashioned and good. Yeah, it's both amnesiac and conspiracy ish and thus a little hard to fathom, but the screenwriters clearly get that and take pains to at least try to get you to believe it could happen.

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5/5 I don't watch alot of contemporary stuff but this fits in with what's going on now in terms of edgy stuff with complex plots a la The Game, Exam, etc 

pretty clearly ahead of it's time.
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« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2011, 04:14:56 PM »

This is a movie I have always wanted to see.  I remember it being on TV occasionally when I was a kid, but I never watched it.  I didn't realize it was on DVD . . . I need to put it on my list!
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« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2011, 11:40:17 AM »

I bought the DVD and finally got around to watching it over the weekend.  Definitely a clever thriller, although I thought it was just a bit too contrived and "way out" for me to give it a 5/5.  But I will give it a 4/5.  Great cast!
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« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2011, 02:52:14 PM »

It was definitely sort of ridiculous.
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« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2011, 03:04:57 PM »

It was definitely sort of ridiculous.

For about the first 30 minutes I was really intrigued by the whole thing.  It definitely kept me guessing and waiting in suspense for the next clue.  But then the whole conspiracy thing just kept getting bigger and bigger and more melodramatic until it seemed like the screenwriter just couldn't control himself and went way beyond the limits of suspension of disbelief.  But it's still a good, interesting movie.
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