Good to great actors...but...YAWN~ I had DVR-d this and wound it back to try & get "into" the story...i.e. get hooked enough to WANT to finish it! The dreary late 1960s movie . where ALL is doubted and ALL the world is just one sour lemon...means that you get the jazzy music whenever Mason's character will have that dreary "I love you, wife, but why are you sleeping with everyone" talk.
And no one really believes in anything...Mason and another great actor Maximillian Schell - long for the good old days of World War 2 when the issues (i.e. the "good vs bad") seemed clear...So why should we care if someone is spying on someone else???
If you're gonna do nihilism---make it INTERESTING---not dreary!
Deleted it without bothering to rewind & review the ending. I just didn't care!!!
(And I liked some other Sidney Lumet films...as well as many of these actors....But this one's a dud!)
And no one really believes in anything...Mason and another great actor Maximillian Schell - long for the good old days of World War 2 when the issues (i.e. the "good vs bad") seemed clear...So why should we care if someone is spying on someone else???
If you're gonna do nihilism---make it INTERESTING---not dreary!
Deleted it without bothering to rewind & review the ending. I just didn't care!!!
(And I liked some other Sidney Lumet films...as well as many of these actors....But this one's a dud!)