davegrenfell Review of Hook, Line and Sinker

Hook, Line and Sinker (1969)

surely the alternative title is kook's tour?

[5/10 · 10 April 2008]

this took about five views before i got used enough to it not to feel it was too cynical to be funny. Jerry's attitude to house and kids is somewhat terrible to say the least. There isn't really enough plot to keep things going, so the film tends to drag. And jerry doesn't get enough revenge, or at least his revenge isn't clever enough to make it all worthwhile in the end. He should be fighting to get everything back and come up with some scheme so outrageous that it is at least as complex and nasty as the scheme inflicted on him. Just putting a black corpse in a coffin isn't enough. Get a gang together! Make it into the sting! Let's stitch that sob to the wall!