A truly weird thriller, Eyewitness also acts as a nice nostalgia trip if you ever took any of your holidays as a kid in Malta, as I did with my family about 7 or 8 times.
For the most part, John Hough's film comes across like it could have been quite a family friendly caper, regarding a young boy who witnesses something he shouldn't have done. But its occasional bursts of serious violence (one is especially shocking) push it awayβ¦
Fritz Lang made some uncharacteristically awful choices in Man Hunt, a film that really should have been one of the more notable 'brink of war' films made.
Two of them are the lead characters. Joan Bennett is tasked with doing a Cockney accent, and... well, I'd be lying if I said it was awful. It's really awful. Dick van Dyke has nothing on her. Bizarrely, Walter Pidgeon is just allowed to do his normal accent despite also playing a Britishβ¦
Choose Letterboxd. Choose films. Choose downloading the app. Choose paying money for a membership just so you donβt have to see some fucker adding 500 films to their watchlist. Choose following a few thousand people and then never reading a fucking word they say. Choose writing βRead the full review on my website!β knowing full well no cunt is ever going to follow that link. Choose asking Sally Jane Black to watch Rogue Nation and then seeing her do aβ¦
It's fine.
The plot is fine.
The special effects are fine.
The music is fine.
The direction is fine.
The cinematography is fine.
The pacing is fine.
The acting is fine.
The alien is fine.
The deaths are fine.
The beginning is fine.
The middle is fine.
The ending is fine.
It's just, very, fine.
Fine?
Fine.
