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

having a crush on a celebrity has taken me places i wouldn’t even go with a gun

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.