Dressed to Kill
1980 Directed by Brian De Palma
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A mysterious, tall, blonde woman, wearing sunglasses murders one of a psychiatrist's patients, and now she's after the prostitute who witnessed it.
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More epic trash from De Palma. His shot compositions are so ridiculously awesome I could watch any of his films on repeat and never need to watch anything else.
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Alfred Hitchcock > Brian De Palma
Now can someone get that through De Palma's skull so he can stop trying to emulate him like an obsessed fanboy?
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A sleazy master class. DePalma shows once that he was the man back in the day. A surprising and appreciative heavy influence of Giallo made for an interesting, entertaining beautifully stylised horror flick.
A tad predictable but it doesn't harm it that much. Plus, as always Nancy Allen is absolutely stunning.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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I consider this film one of the greatest films ever made....still do after the rewatch.
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Fun melodramatic trash by Brian DePalma. Minus 2 stars for having to see Angie Dickinson's snatch at the beginning of the movie.
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There are at least three highly debated questions about this movie:
1) Is De Palma plundering Hitchcock's style (to paraphrase Dave Kehr) or is he analyzing it? Is he unoriginal or is he stretching/building on Hitchock's style in order to perform a Godardian investigation of the image?
Here's a Cahiers du cinema roundtable (featuring Serge Daney and Jean Douchet) prompted by the film: torontofilmreview.blogspot.com/2012/10/but-do-you-like-him-enough-brian-de.html
On the other side of the argument, here's Dave Kehr in a capsule review for the Chicago Reader: www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/dressed-to-kill/Film?oid=10618432) Does the film portray transgender people in a negative light? From what I've read, it seems that there were protests by LGBT groups when the film was released. The killer in the film is a transgender…
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It'd have been easier to look up soft-core porn online than to try and sit through this atrocity.
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Pretty much epitomizes the safari-vested auteur's entire filmmaking manifesto: style over all other aspects, with the only substance being "look what I did here, isn't that so Hitchcockian!?" De Palma's at his sleaziest, most misogynistic and homophobic and he still can't write a believable line of dialogue if his life depended on it, but there are a handful of self-contained sequences here that almost justify his veneration among certain cinephiles; the silent, nearly 15 minute museum flirtation/stalking sequence is justly celebrated, and the split screen Phil Donahue scene works as both postmodern ironic distancing and clever foreshadowing.
But as DRESSED TO KILL amplifies the director's strengths, it also does the same for his sundry shortcomings. The stupid fakeout protagonist death…
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Fun melodramatic trash by Brian DePalma. Minus 2 stars for having to see Angie Dickinson's snatch at the beginning of the movie.
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Memorable thriller with some good twists.
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A decent De Palma film but ultimately suffers from an over-explanatory ending. De Palma tends to do this with his films but this one didn't have enough going on in the first 2 thirds to make the flat ending be fine. Not a bad film by any means. There are some amazing shots, the acting is very good, and the ideas are all interesting. Not one of De Palma's best, but as always, worth a watch.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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"Dressed To Kill" es un thriller erótico filmado con tanto estilo y tensión acumulada que le perdonamos que a veces caiga en lo absurdo, incluyendo su escena final. Hay secuencias en esta cinta muy memorables como la del museo o aquella que usa pantallas divididas para mostrar a dos personajes (la cual Tarantino imito como homenaje en la escena del hospital en "Kill Bill"). De Palma nos seduce con un ritmo hipnótico durante su primera hora y luego nos introduce a dos personajes interesantes, un adolescente genio buscando pistas para resolver el misterio y una prostituta tratando de probar su inocencia. "Dressed To Kill" contiene giros un tanto predecibles pero la pelicula nos envuelve y entretiene tanto que realmente no importa. He aquí una joyita ochentera
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Really interesting.Lovely shot.Dont get the hatred for this film by some