Reviews

From my professional view (clinical psychologist) this film is a very well presented case study about a stalking woman, who is psychotic and psychopathic at the same time.

What Dave (C. Eastwood) does not recognize from the beginning is, that Evelyn has been loving him for a long time before they even met, through the radio (he is a DJ). And, what he should have done from the beginning is, that he should have said NO to her approaches, when he felt, he did not love her. Seduction is a strong weapon, many a man cannot resist and sometimes - or maybe even more often - is abused in one or the other way.

To make this a central issue in this film is very deserving, and, I fear, most often overseen, as this film's horror overwhelms the psychological implications for many a viewer.

Aside from that, a musical highlight is Cannonball Adderly and Joe Zawinul (who later founded Weather Report) at the Monterey Jazz Festival, but, what a pity, too short...

... most brutal and cruel and unnecessarily sadistic movie, a sheer overdose of fascist revenge. Awful. Disgusting. ... most brutal and cruel and unnecessarily sadistic movie, a sheer overdose of fascist revenge. Awful. Disgusting. ... most brutal and cruel and unnecessarily sadistic movie, a sheer overdose of fascist revenge. Awful. Disgusting. ... most brutal and cruel and unnecessarily sadistic movie, a sheer overdose of fascist revenge. Awful. Disgusting. ... most brutal and cruel and unnecessarily sadistic movie, a sheer overdose of fascist revenge. Awful. Disgusting. ... most brutal and cruel and unnecessarily sadistic movie, a sheer overdose of fascist revenge. Awful. Disgusting.

As one of the recipients writes, "he is better than Walt Disney": Well,unfortunately, this is true. But this is not hard.

The film - in my opinion - is the anime version of a jump & run computer game, a poor want-to-be version of Alice In Wonderland.

Strange drawings, disgusting animated things and creatures, really terrifying music, hardly any plot, just a horrifying sequence of weird scenes, deeply depressive atmosphere.

Guess, I don't like that!

Good animation to me is, e. g., Tom & Jerry, the old sequels, the ones by TEX AVERY. See:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn7Su0A-inA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeBsACB7NDA

I have not seen and heard the original version.

I am no Russian, but I am learning right now.

I also have no preferences for Russia, Bulgaia, the US etc.

But what I have to mention is:

In the German synchronisation in the whole film all Russians speak with Russian accent. Americans talk "Hochdeutsch" (without accent)! I have never heard such a stupidity! Besides, this is boring.

I hope the original is better.

The rest is a simple thriller, not really good ideas. Like a cheap version of a James Bond film.

I only could see this film 25 years ago in Zurich in an independent cinema, no more ever since then, not even on DVD, no matter how much I tried.

Here, at last, I found it described and cannot help but tell everybody to see this wonderful movie, one of the best I have ever seen (I am the co-founder of an independent cinema in Austria).

Don't miss it, I hope that it it comes on DVD, finally!

It is an important human and political document about a time and circumstances, which seem gone, but, in one or the other way are going on and on all over the world even faster than ever and finally lead to problems for us all.

The "solution" of this film is not the one I prefer, but this film makes it understandable, how it came and comes to reactions, nobody really wants, 50 years ago, today, and, unfortunately also tomorrow. But, as history shows, this struggle was not in vain.