SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

mayamax John Frankenheimer hallucinated sci-fi thriller director I had the pleasure of meeting at Hotel Imperiale Cipriani in Venice in September 1998 where he presented Ronin. Professionally I took care of the transport of his luggage (8 giant trunks) to Los Angeles, while he and his wife would leave for Japan. I have not seen many of his films but after watching this masterpiece I think I will continue with his filmography. I thought of him as a very classic director of action films, detective films, Hollywood and spectacular instead here from all the essence of a very high artistic, visionary, symbolic and introspective ability of which I did not imagine minimally with juxtapositions to German expressionism and tributes to pagan art. Hudson gives the best of himself in a performance of yesteryear, while the whole film is still very topical today compared to the time of creation, especially in the scene of the wine festival. Superlative film of which I recommend the vision to the most experienced. Masterly photography. View version in original audio in blu ray quality 1080p probably a restoration and I believe not cut from the censorship. 9

capone666 SecondsThe downside to getting a new face is that all your old selfies are now meaningless.However, the recipient in this sci-fi thriller could care less about his old face.Fatigued with his middle-aged existence, Arthur (John Randolph) abandons his loveless marriage for an opportunity being offered by a clandestine organization able to give you the life you've only dreamed of.Surgically altered, rechristened Tony (Rock Hudson) and presented with a new apartment, Arthur enjoys his new life as a successful artist with many well-to-do friends. But when a drunken Tony relapses into Arthur, he learns quickly that The Company doesn't tolerate such regression.A paranoid thriller that is both visually stunning - thanks to director John Frankenheimer - and highly suspenseful - thanks to its Twilight Zone-esque narrative and social commentary on modern medicine, Seconds is a landmark cinematic achievement.Incidentally, Arthur's sexual preference also changes when he becomes Rock Hudson.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

ctowyi Have you ever thought about starting it all over again? What if I tell you that there is a firm that specializes in transplanting your entire consciousness into a new body and you can then live your perfect self-designed life? Would you do it if money is not an issue?John Frankenheimer's Seconds (1966) feels like an extended Twilight Zone episode and you know there will be no good outcome. It is a chilling story that send shivers down my spine. It concerns a middle-aged banker, who dissatisfied with his suburban existence, elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life. But not everything goes to plan and he becomes disenfranchised with his new life and seeks a return to his old self.What makes the film go on a waking nightmare plane is the stylistics that accompanies it. The weird camera angles, fragmented editing and uncanny sound design give the movie a lot of sinister atmosphere. It really feels like a lucid nightmare. Rock Hudson is a revelation too in this outstanding paranoia dark film.

babblon26 Just had to add a note of admiration for this greatly overlooked masterpiece of modern angst. I saw it when a student in Glasgow in 1969. That is probably why it has stayed to haunt me - possibly to the grave. Beyond that, I really don't know.I'm no film critic but like several of the cinema cognoscenti, I was surprised Rock had a movie like this in him. Probably his best. The camera work takes you right in. You don't remember willingly suspending disbelief. It is as plausible and convincing as a good nightmare. Bleak, black and white, terse like John Boorman's Point Blank. Round about the same time as Blow Up appeared. Also a surprisingly mature performance from David Hemmings, matched the mood of powerlessness and fatalism that pervades Seconds.A little further off it recalled the Incredible Shrinking Man. The same mood of fatalism pervades but from a different perspective. In the latter, the isolated individual is redeemed by some metaphysical union with the universe. In Seconds the isolated, narcissistic self implodes.John Frankenheimer's modern Frankenstein. Or another parallel universemight be Dorian Grey. It is a multi layered movie.