Despite the pitch - black themes, the performances and direction guide us through to the bitter end with style, making
this a surprisingly easy film to watch even through the toughest of times.
Not exact matches
It is quite
easy to take a trip to the river and discover that the part of the
film when commandos Jack Hawkins and William Holden parachute into the jungle and plant dynamite under the bridge, which British officer Alec Guinness and his
surprisingly healthy - looking troops have built, is pure fiction.
Hodges doesn't shirk his duties, and though the
film lapses too often into
easy facetiousness, much of it feels
surprisingly substantial.
In addition, the jokes that land at the feet of poor Amanda Seyfried while chucklesome just feel like
easy pickings, as does one of the
film's big cameos and a
surprisingly dull Saturday Night Live sequence, arguably the
film's low points.
It's a solid variation on scare tactics utilized so magnificently in Bertino's original
film, and as such this new escapade featuring the bloody handiwork of Dollface, Pinup and The Man in the Mask is
surprisingly easy to enjoy.
It's
easy to toss around words like disturbing, eerie, murder and violence when Alfred Hitchcock is involved, but, it turns out, the
film version of a portion of his life is incredibly enjoyable and
surprisingly heartwarming.