Synopsis
How can you stop what you don't understand?
A detective comes out of retirement to help his daughter's fiance prove that he did not commit a series of murders.
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
A detective comes out of retirement to help his daughter's fiance prove that he did not commit a series of murders.
Mord in der Rue Morgue, I delitti della via Morgue, Los crímenes de la calle Morgue, A Morgue-utcai gyilkosság, Убийства на улице Морг, Le Tueur de la rue Morgue, Vraždy v ulici Morgue, Zabójstwa przy Rue Morgue
One date not stare too deeply into the deep void of the Kilmer filmography, lest it stare back.
This isn't good. Wwwaaayyy too slow throughout, until a twist ending that shook me out of the Sunday afternoon nap it was lulling me into. Now I have blue... eyelids?
It's a shame because look at this loaded cast! Besides VK getting me to stumble across this, it has George C. Scott, Rebecca de Mornay, and Ian fucking McShane! All that talent and it was still boring.
Keanu probably used Val Kilmer's performance here as inspiration for Dracula. I mean, he definitely didn't, but I'm sure he did.
A mostly listlessness television remake of the far superior Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932).
Auguste Dupin's endless hesitation about whether to solve the crime only served to bore the viewer. I fault the writing.
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Cult of Personality: 2025
Week 39: Rebecca De Mornay
successfully pulls a twist ending by being so incredibly boring that you don’t expect it could do anything silly. and then: monkey!
Watched this for school. Edgar Allen Poe created masterpieces. This film is not that. It slavishly does everything Poe did in his story while having no creativity of its own. It wasn’t bad, though. It just… exists. The performances were decent, I suppose. Two and a half stars.
George C. Scott and Val Kilmer elevate what is an otherwise made-for-TV quality feature in this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of the same name. The Parisian period sets and costumes are lovely enough but there's a languid approach to direction that results in a thoroughly timid affair. Even Scott and Kilmer occasionally come across as demure in performances that should have been anything but. The horror and mystery elements are poorly realized and ultimately the narrative takes on a rather sleepy tone.
A pleasant enough diversion for fans of the genre but not worth going out of your way for. It mostly made me want to check out other interpretations to see how they fare better.
The mystery, for me, was how could such a terrific cast: George C. Scott, Val Kilmer, Rebecca De Mornay, and Ian McShane take Poe's classic tale of terror, suspense, and ratiocination and produce a narcoleptic garble of plodding, dragging torment akin to attaching an anvil to your Prince Albert or Princess Diana and going the wrong way up an escalator.
to ask val kilmer to stop being so cutie patootie would be like clipping an angel of its wings it’s literally his superpower to always be extremely doe eyed and soft spoken I HATE HIM
wanted to watch something new tonight but also was having a bad night so it was like if i didn’t see 80s val kilmer i was literally for real seriously not being dramatic or joking going to drop dead. i got like 15 minutes into this and knew that i chose the wrong movie for tonight but i had already committed so i begrudgingly watched the whole thing.
i wouldn’t really say it’s offensively bad, it’s just not really too much of anything either way. it is kind of… incredibly boring. i was genuinely fighting to stay awake if i’m being honest. some of the dialogue is kind of awkward. the reveal scene was so unintentionally hilarious.
however, i did…
It's not too bad. But then, it's not too good either. A good cast led by George C. Scott, who manages to not chew too much scenery, does solid work, but it very much looks like a made-for-tv film. Shot on location in France, aside from some nice costumes the film has little production value and zero pizzazz. It's shot in and has the most drab aesthetic imaginable and it completely wastes the Paris location. There's obviously strong source material here and, as I mentioned earlier, solid performances - so I'm amazed that the director and cinematographer chose to shoot it in such a dull and unimaginative way. The look and editing of the film drag it down despite it's…
Pilihan proyek yang lucu dari seorang Val Kilmer yang sebelumnya udah main film bagus macam Top Gun, Real Genius dan Top Secret!
Gue suka komitmen filmnya yang pake satu sumber cahaya dari lampu minyak yang dibawa jadi emang kerasa kalo malam itu ngga ada listrik dan cahaya cuma dari lampu minyak doang. Tapi penyelesaian kasusnya aneh dan ga masuk akal. Apalagi endingnya, yang terjadi begitu saja tanpa ada yang elaborasi sama siapapun di film bikin agak tebodoh sekaligus lucu.