Sorry, this movie sucks

Simply Perfect

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I like Timothy Hutton and the casting was good, especially David Kelly. I started out digging the intro scenes rapidly bringing on the mystery. It was a little derivative, but the plot rapidly started to fall apart. I'm not going to give a direct spoiler, but I am going to observe that if you want a (hungry, always hungry) author to write something, rather than resort to intricate deadly violent methods, all you have to do is tell the author what you want and PAY HIM! The plot holes were so many and so deep that the main characters were calling attention to them as a plot device! So maybe the movie is worth watching as an example of how well people can put nonsense together and make it appealing.My theory? The writer/ producers were having too much fun in Mallorca to read their own script.

This is one of those quirky little offbeat movies that go completely unrecognised by the viewing public, only to turn up unannounced on late-night TV one night years later. I saw it was on, realised I knew absolutely nothing about it, and sat down to watch it...and was pleasantly surprised by an affectionately made film that feels like a TWILIGHT ZONE episode writ large.The plot is like something out of a 1950s-era pulp novel (or maybe Stephen King's CELL) and the story unfolds at speed. Layers of mystery, paranoia and suspense are built up enshrouded in a kind of finesse that only Spanish filmmakers seem to know how to achieve these days.The international funding allows for a decent Hollywood actor (THE DARK HALF's Timothy Hutton) and a host of other genuinely good performers, including Lucia Jimenez's sympathetic heroine and David Kelly's quirky villain. Really, it's the originality that stands out here, with a series of bizarre situations, all handled ably and depicting events you're not likely to see anywhere else. I love this stuff!

Imagine you write a book , a thriller full of horrible things and your story comes true.In real life ,it has already happened,on a smaller scale.The problem with this would be suspense movie is that we learn the truth much too soon and,in spite of the intriguing last picture (what-do-you-think-that-means ?style or maybe ,now roll on "Kovak Box 2").And once you know the truth,the rest is much less absorbing.For instance,does Kovak really need David if he wants to die and thus to be spared the horrible sufferings of his last days?Since his brilliant debut in Redford's "Ordinary people"-if we do not count his early TV works- ,Timothy Hutton has not had many important roles.

If you have any reverence for the recordings of Billie Holiday, this film should strike you as outrageous in its exploitive use of her recording of 'Gloomy Sunday' as the triggering mechanism for mass suicide. But, truth to tell, I was absolutely enthralled by a pulp Science Fiction film that becomes more hilariously preposterous, scene by scene. Disjointed, illogical, derivative, boringly repetitive, here is a film that might have best been broken up into serial chapters and shown a chapter at a time, were it still the double feature / short subject 40s. Timothy Hutton plays the lead with complete command of all the nuances allowed to someone who operates out of the wooden Indian school of acting. This film should serve to nail the coffin lid securely down on the corpse of his cinematic acting career. The damsels in distress (there are two of them) are comely but always allowed to wander off and get into trouble, which necessitates rescue by our hero. There are those who have detected a Hitchcockian aroma wafting from this film, but that only brings into question Hitchcock's dubious and inflated reputation.