Thursday, 9 April 2009

The Third Man (1949), Carol Reed

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/

***1/2















Rated for the hypnotic shadowplay aesthetics and the five minutes of Orson Welles charisma. Otherwise, I didn't really care for the plot and characterization all that much.
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  1. heidi9 April 2009 at 10:09

    woot, and u still gave it three and a half? kanerva has hyped about this as long as i remember, so it on the must-sees anyways.

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  2. Screen Dream10 April 2009 at 06:21

    your comment almost made me go back and subtract the half LOL! but no, that rating feels right.

    admittedly, i was dissapointed due to hype-induced expectations, yeah. it's just more of a movie (rather than film) than i'd thought and as i *should* have expected, it's got a film-noir-like treatment of the plot and characters that's prob no worse than the next film noir's (i mean it might even be particularly good for a film noir but that's not for me to judge), so yeah i guess it's more like a taste thing.

    oh and it really gets on my nerves when "foreigners" in movies speak English perfectly down to idioms and problematic grammar, only with a few strategically-placed idiotic mistakes and a demonstrative accent.

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  3. Screen Dream10 April 2009 at 06:23

    but the visuals, oooh the visuals and the atmosphere, it really feels more like I place where I've been than like a movie I've seen!

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