Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Brilliant and touching

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Giallo is a movie directed by the Italian master Dario Argento, a guy whose movies seem to be getting a lot of hate recently. I really can't explain the phenomenon because his movies haven't changed a bit. He still uses the same clichés, the same type of colors, the same type of angles and the same type of nonsensical plots. One can like his style as much as one can hate it. Giallo movies are not for everyone. His recent movies inexplicably seem to be getting a lot of hate. Now, I understand that he shoots films in a pace and in a fashion that reminds us of old movies. And the reason to why he is getting so much hate is because the audience can't adapt to old-fashioned movies, and he too. But the thing is not that. Because people who claim to love his older movies, claim to hate his newer movies. I guess it will always be a mystery in my head. However, let's get the review going... "Giallo", ironically is not a giallo movie. It doesn't feature the mysterious gloved killer, neither the super fake blood, and the non-sensical plot twist. This time Dario Argento decided to make a movie grounded to reality, that is, it doesn't feature an absurd plot twist. It's a regular crime drama. With blood. Lots and lots of blood. It's an above average crime drama, but a below average giallo film. The movie is really well shot, and the acting (for the most part) is really good. The movie keeps you invested until the finale, which is great by the way. The soundtrack is great too, and it's clearly inspired by the Tintin TV Show Opening Theme. My final grade is a B- or a 7/10

Funny how the reputation of Dario Argento - one of Seventies' masters of horror - keeps attracting respectable actors like Max Von Sydow, Thomas Kretschmann, Liam Cunningham and Rutger Hauer, no matter how atrocious the director's late-career efforts have been.Here the one badly slumming is Adrien Brody in a double role as both a veteran detective and the serial killer he is hunting down, the titular Giallo. It's the kind of performance which should balance out his magnificent turn in the Pianist and make the Academy retire his Best Actor Award.The movie is embarrassing, worthless, hilarious. It's Uwe Boll bad - except from Boll himself that would be legitimate; from someone like Argento, it's tragic. People snipe at John Carpenter, another titan of the Seventies, for The Ward, Vampires and Ghosts of Mars... but, compared to Argento, Carpenter is aging like fine wine.If you admired the cinematic craft displayed in Deep Red and Suspiria, do yourself a favour: avoid this movie and everything else made by Argento in the last years (actually, I'd argue he hasn't made anything of value after Inferno, and that was in 1980). It's the cinematic equivalent of watching your favorite soccer player try to take a penalty kick, only to trip over and break his leg.3/10

Time was when Argento was one of my favorite horror directors ;remember his impressive "profondo Rosso" ,his mind-boggling "Ucello Della Piume Di Cristallo" ,his baroque "opera",his terrific "tenebrae"! But no more ;from "two evil eyes" onward ,Argento's works fail to excite me ;it must be the screenplays;in the sixties and seventies efforts,the stories were complicated ,labyrinthine,with unexpected twists ;there were knowing lightings and a sense of space ("Inferno") few directors have."Giallo" is a non-story,or a psycho killer story the average viewer has seen at least a hundred times or more ;E.Seigner,with her sullen face ,is not able to generate any emotion;and we can only dream of what Argento would have done with highly talented Brody in his heyday!certainly not this cop with a dark past!As for the killer,he is not even scary;Brody himself was much frightening in "oxygen" .

I have NEVER reviewed a film here, and am the easiest-to-please film watcher you ever saw - I like just about everything. But this was the worst piece of crap I've ever seen, and I feel duty-bound to warn my fellow viewers.The ending was so bad, it was as though it was a joke, or a farce - but it wasn't. We are supposed to be fooled by makeup into not knowing who a certain character is, but a child could see it.If you watch the whole film, as I did, hoping Adrian Brody would make it at least OK, you'll be bitterly disappointed. He was wretched - hard to believe such a good actor could stoop this low - and he's a producer! It's no wonder it seems to have never been released. How this film got an average of 4.5 is beyond my understanding.