Where do I start? After reading some reviews on here, I was excited to see this flick. Some great things have been said on here for sure. After completing "Don't Look Now," one can only assume these things were written by four year olds. Unless you find mindless dialog, pointless scenes and under-developed characters entertaining, you will not be impressed by this slice of mediocre 70's crap.
I actually laughed at the ending, which, to those of us who have seen far superior films like "Profondo Rosso," "Don't Torture a Duckling" and "The House With Laughing Windows" will seem like an episode of "Full House." So a dwarf hacks Donald Sutherland once in the neck and he dies. Frankly, he probably deserved it for subjecting the viewers to his flaccid, pale, awkward body in a prolonged, painful sex scene with co-star Julie Christie. Easily the scariest part of the film right there.
I was bothered by the 'plot' in "Don't Look Now," and I use the term plot very loosely because there just isn't much of one. I'll sum it up for you: Donald Sutherland and wife lose child in drowning accident. They go to Venice so Sutherland can restore a church. Some boring stuff happens for almost two hours then the Sutherland gets hacked one time by a dwarf in a red coat that looks similar to the one his daughter was wearing. In the end, my reaction was WHO CARES? I wanna know about that ugly little dwarf, dammit! That would have made for a much better flick than what I just sat through! Don't bother watching this if you haven't seen the 1970's Italian horror films of Argento, Fulci, Sergio Martino and Aldo Lado first. This one attempts to rob from those films but does so very poorly. To those of us who are seasoned giallo vets, this will prove to be a maddening, over-hyped, jumbled mess that cannot hold a candle to the real thing.
Scary? Only if you're crazy and don't find a nude Donald Sutherland incredibly HOT.
3 out of 10, kids.
I actually laughed at the ending, which, to those of us who have seen far superior films like "Profondo Rosso," "Don't Torture a Duckling" and "The House With Laughing Windows" will seem like an episode of "Full House." So a dwarf hacks Donald Sutherland once in the neck and he dies. Frankly, he probably deserved it for subjecting the viewers to his flaccid, pale, awkward body in a prolonged, painful sex scene with co-star Julie Christie. Easily the scariest part of the film right there.
I was bothered by the 'plot' in "Don't Look Now," and I use the term plot very loosely because there just isn't much of one. I'll sum it up for you: Donald Sutherland and wife lose child in drowning accident. They go to Venice so Sutherland can restore a church. Some boring stuff happens for almost two hours then the Sutherland gets hacked one time by a dwarf in a red coat that looks similar to the one his daughter was wearing. In the end, my reaction was WHO CARES? I wanna know about that ugly little dwarf, dammit! That would have made for a much better flick than what I just sat through! Don't bother watching this if you haven't seen the 1970's Italian horror films of Argento, Fulci, Sergio Martino and Aldo Lado first. This one attempts to rob from those films but does so very poorly. To those of us who are seasoned giallo vets, this will prove to be a maddening, over-hyped, jumbled mess that cannot hold a candle to the real thing.
Scary? Only if you're crazy and don't find a nude Donald Sutherland incredibly HOT.
3 out of 10, kids.