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Can you really believe Geraldine McEwan when she states, "I am Nemesis," in this mystery?
The ending did not reveal any truths to me, only more mystery as to what on earth really happened.
This mystery ruined her life, she tried to substitute husband by lover but failed.
"Boys" tells a flimsy story to which Cochran tries to add mystery by keeping information from the audience and revealing it piecemeal via flashback.
The film moves along for near half its length without really getting into what the deal is behind the killing but director Antonio Bido handles things with quiet style and keeps the film ever watchable, with a sense of mystery that makes the unfolding revelations all the more satisfying.
The films main drawback is that whilst various elements position it as a giallo the original intention was a serious minded dramatic mystery (the script went through a number of rewrites to make it into a marketable giallo) and so it never really manages to be as tense, twisted or exuberant as the genre calls for.
I cannot say less, at the beginning I didn't want to watch it, I thought: "another mix of gore and mystery with nothing good to make you think" (something like millennium) But finally I found at least three good reasons because the Collector it's one of the best shows 1- Unpredictable: from the first episode you'll never know when there's a "happy ending", the stories are very dark but there's no use of unnecessary violence, everything has a reason.
How anyone above the age of ten can be so enamored with this remains a mystery to me.
Although Mitchell's character is not a detective, this plays a lot like a detective film, and director Cahn is a master at pacing, so despite the miniscule budget (Havana is evoked by a few small sets and a few California exteriors with Spanish-language signs on them!), the film plays like a good little paperback-original mystery novel--especially so since Mitchell provides voice-over narration here and there to speed things along and to mention things that would be too expensive to show on camera.
The mystery of what sparks Jagger's unrelenting hatred of Bob continues to the last, and enhanced with fine acting and Wong Howe's inspired photo work, makes for a fine film.
On paper, this movie had all the makings of a classic...a hugely talented superstar cast, a unique and creative storyline and an artistic assortment of cinematic spices like emotion, tender romance, jealousy, greed, mystery and a lip smacking element of surprise in the end.
This films attempts to be three things: a mystery (wherein it wastes actor Skeet Ulrich), a "first love" story, and a portrait of boys at a boarding school.
Ryder sleep walks through an enigmatic and poorly conceived role, and there really is not very much tension or mystery.
There is love, mystery, honor, humor and a good plot.
I was duped into believing this to be a horror film but it is just a dumb mystery psycho-drama with plenty of bad acting, predictable plot development, and an absolutely absurd premise that hasn't got an iota of credibility or realism to it.
What's worse, the entire British police force and its detectives and psychologists can't figure the mystery out, and are deceived by a half-crazed teen who hasn't eaten or drank much for a fortnight!
It's a good mystery.
Bela Lugosi is featured as the butler, Peters, and he plays the role perfectly straight (in a sense perfectly cast, because I can't picture Lugosi doing comedy) and that straight performance adds both to the comedy and the mystery (Peters comes across as mysterious throughout.)
The way the two get from one step to another on their way to unveil the mystery is totally uninteresting.
It's the kind of story where the protagonist knows exactly the right bits of obscure information and knows exactly the right people who can give her exactly the information she needs to unravel the mystery.
Then it does a really bad job at setting the stage for the mystery: it never takes the time to clearly help the audience understand the lay-out of the house or where people are supposed to be so that when the murder happens, we really understands that there is clearly something unsolvable about the mystery which would help grad audience attention.
Even though it looked from the box like this movie was low-budget, with a cast of unknowns, I thought it might have some possibilities as a mystery story.
What happens in this murder mystery, quite simply put, is that Cuba Gooding Jr. is a disbarred lawyer who is framed for multiple killings of other lawyers.
In what is easily the best film of the year thus far, multi-talented up-and-coming Oscar-winning writer/director Paul Haggis (Crash, Flags of Our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby), brings us this intense, intelligent and subtle drama wrapped around a murder mystery.
It's too bad since it is an unusual and tidy little mystery of the late 1940's.
There is just such a great story of mystery, and lost cultures, and hard feelings dispelled.
The mystery deepens even further when an expert in bio-chemistry , Professor Helsingman (Saul Bronson), who has been missing for the past five years turns up out of the blue.
Yes, the nosy Ms. Fletcher has returned for another murder mystery.
The only mystery was "whatlipstick is our heroine wearing?"
A film filled with baffling mystery; it's substandard is almost every respect, but was shot in color.
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