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A good Bronson performance, but the movie is weak and the "hit man" is cartoonish...looks like someone who couldn't make The Sopranos team. The bad guys have dozens of ways to dispatch Bronson's character, but botch it up time after time. A pretty one-dimensional story, but a good one for Bronson fans.

Film critics and too many ordinary movie goers have been much too hard on this film, which comes across as an exciting--if at times unbelievable-- tale of an ordinary Jew trying almost single-handedly to wage a losing war against the Nazis and their partners in genocide, the Arrow Cross (Hungarian Nazis.) It's a fast-paced film that war movie lovers will definitely enjoy. If you're looking for Gone With The Wind, you took out the wrong flic!

Totally agree with the (many) reviewers who called Kong: Skull Island a Humungous Turkey! One of my favorite moments was when the heroine--the woman photographer--falls in the water and starts sinking...Anyone who's ever seen a movie knows to expect big hairy hand from the love-struck Kong to come lowering in the water to cup the lovely damsel in distress! Fay Wray would spin over in her grave watching this lame scene and film. Kong's constant terrifying roaring is almost as loud as the cry of hundreds of thousands of movie-goers who have been suckered out of ten bucks or more to watch this flic.

This movie doesn't know if it wants to be a comedy or a gangster suspense thriller...so it winds up being neither--a flic you can't take seriously on an any level. Every name actor--deNiro, Pfeiffer, Jones, seems to sleep-walk through it, phoning in their performance. Couldda been a contender!

If you need to watch the worst movies you've ever seen, be sure to include this one on your list! It seems to have been inspired by The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but the only thing it shares with that movie are the words "The Treasure of" in the title. The acting ranges from bad to dreadful, the plot is so simplistic it might have come out of a middle school film class, and the photography and editing would have to be improved to rise to mediocrity. The music, at least as far as I was concerned, was passable in creating a nice western ambiance, and as a lover of the Arizona terrain, I enjoyed the scenery...which I noted from the credits was around the Carefree Resort, where my wife and I have stayed a number of times. It would be fun to do a "blooper" roll on this film, except it might be longer than the film itself. One standout boo-boo: after being savagely whipped, with her back covered in "blood," Rena Winters appears in a subsequent scene with a back as clean as a whistle and no signs of any blood--or even abuse--whatsoever. She does, however, retain her fake eyelashes throughout. The strangely named "Sally"--a psycho/cowboy--is the western version of Marty Feldman, and the main male lead, whose real name and character name I already forgot, sounds more like the Vice President of a New York advertising agency than a cowpoke in charge of a band of cowboy treasure hunters. All this notwithstanding, I found this to be a watchable film you will not have to do too much thinking about. Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood need not worry about competition.

This film is a good first step in chronicling the rise and fall of a hot dot.com business. Left unrevealed, as many other viewers have commented, is a more insightful look at what the business was all about, what the challenges were in marketing it, how the business expected to make money, and exactly how it rose and fell. Nothing is mentioned about the problems of recruiting talent, pitching prospects, or confronting competition which, apparently, was the cause of the govworks downfall. We also would like to know more about the backgrounds of the founders--where did they grow up? What did their parents do? And what's the story behind the daughter of Tom? (Other comments allude to his "gayness" but I didn't feel that was clearly implied...Is it relevant?)

I recall this movie from my days growing up, an avid movie fan, in Brooklyn, New York; it was one of those flics they wouldn't let us in to see. I never got around to viewing it until now and although Taylor is easy on the eyes, the stilted dialogue and Hollywood plotting (and plodding) made those eyes glaze over. I couldn't sit through more than twenty minutes or so and then promptly rewound the tape and returned it. I think a contemporary audience is too jaded to be shocked or even interested by anything that goes on in Butterfield 8...The characters are almost cartoonish as they go through their paces, and Liz's behavior, esp. in the opening scene, is so scripted it's almost laughable. (Censorship standards didn't help make this a realistic movie either...What woman, in the privacy of her own bedroom, would put her slip on WHILE STILL WEARING HER BATH TOWEL!!!)

A bit stilted and corny from time to time, TD&DW is well-worth watching for the absolutely brilliant performance of Walter Huston as Mr. Scratch. Although delivered more than 60 years ago, his peppy dialog and wisecracks could have come out of dialog written for a current movie. A true performance for the ages, one that makes you want to reacquaint yourself with Huston's work in classics like Dodsworth and Treasure of Sierra Madre. Some may say the "message" is misguided--Webster simply argues that a guy should be given another chance; the issue of trading your soul for riches is not really addressed by the guy who, in fact, did this!