Ugh! I stuck it out for 45 minutes shaking my head at what I perceived to be the most muddled script in the history of film. What a mess! The poor writer was utterly lost and had no idea where he was going or what he was doing. There are so many things wrong with this film that it's really difficult to sort them all out. Let's see. The casting sucked big time. The women weren't so bad but the men were uniformly horrid - boring, dull, homely - you name it - not one of them got my juices flowing. On top of that the women - and there were way too many women - were for the most part pretty to look at but they had the depth of snails. Who cared if one of the girls lost her virginity? Or if another was a lesbian? There was so much going on that getting to know any of the characters with any depth was impossible. I actually got dizzy trying to figure out who was who and what was going on. Yeah, okay, so it was probably break-through feminism in the movies (it was 1966, after all) and there probably should have been a female director but they didn't have any in 1966 so poor Sidney Lumet was stuck with the job and all he did was direct traffic.
Review of The Group
