This is my first review, and I'm 34 years old. Often I don't agree with the high ratings young moviegoers shower the latest vapid blockbusters, but I understand they love it and they have the right to their opinion. Conversely, I really disliked Strangers on a Train and I feel my opinion is similarly valid. Being in the IMDb's top 250 with a rating of 8+ I approached this movie expecting a masterpiece, but in the end felt feed a bunch of crap.
It started off decently enough, suspense building slowly like I would expect from the genre's master director. But after the first part of movie's unusual premise is completed, things fall apart. The characters' actions don't feel realistic and several scenes made me "wake up" from the movie's universe as they didn't feel real. Also I felt the movie dragged on forever. I was bored, and I can usually endure some pretty non-eventful developments before I get bored.
The end felt fake, phony and completely forced. I felt like I was watching a B horror movie and (almost?) started laughing at how ridiculously bad it all looked.
Maybe at the time the movie was a masterpiece, I don't know. But my rating is made today and I utterly don't recommend it. 4/10.
It started off decently enough, suspense building slowly like I would expect from the genre's master director. But after the first part of movie's unusual premise is completed, things fall apart. The characters' actions don't feel realistic and several scenes made me "wake up" from the movie's universe as they didn't feel real. Also I felt the movie dragged on forever. I was bored, and I can usually endure some pretty non-eventful developments before I get bored.
The end felt fake, phony and completely forced. I felt like I was watching a B horror movie and (almost?) started laughing at how ridiculously bad it all looked.
Maybe at the time the movie was a masterpiece, I don't know. But my rating is made today and I utterly don't recommend it. 4/10.