This is not such much a review as it is a plea for those out there that think only new movies (books, music or any artistic endeavor) can be really good to open their minds and experience something new.... even if it is very old.
This movie is 89 years old and still holds up. Its dark, creepy, violent and thoroughly twisted. Ok maybe it doesn't have any of the graphic language/ violence or t&a so many viewers seem to require nowadays. The watcher's imagination needs to fill in those holes but, Fritz Lang's direction and artistic approach to the killings and portrayal of a deviant mind tells the rest of the tale in a way that should get even the most hard to impress movie fans immediately invested in this story.
Not enough to impress yet? Ok last try. How about a movie about the hunt to find a seriously disturbed child killer? The city's police force can't catch him and short of clues and ideas they narrow the search to the local criminal world. This becomes a real problem for the local bad guys, they can't ply their trade(s) with the cops on their back can they? So that they can get back to making their illegal livings the underworld kingpins make the decision the only way to get the cops outta their hair is to catch the killer themselves. Eventually they catch up with the killer and in a really neat twist decide to try the murderer in their own criminal court, an actual court not for criminals but made up entirely of criminals. How's that for a plot!?
If you're not a fan of old movies just because you've never given them a shot this might be a good first one to try, old movies really don't come much better than "M"
This movie is 89 years old and still holds up. Its dark, creepy, violent and thoroughly twisted. Ok maybe it doesn't have any of the graphic language/ violence or t&a so many viewers seem to require nowadays. The watcher's imagination needs to fill in those holes but, Fritz Lang's direction and artistic approach to the killings and portrayal of a deviant mind tells the rest of the tale in a way that should get even the most hard to impress movie fans immediately invested in this story.
Not enough to impress yet? Ok last try. How about a movie about the hunt to find a seriously disturbed child killer? The city's police force can't catch him and short of clues and ideas they narrow the search to the local criminal world. This becomes a real problem for the local bad guys, they can't ply their trade(s) with the cops on their back can they? So that they can get back to making their illegal livings the underworld kingpins make the decision the only way to get the cops outta their hair is to catch the killer themselves. Eventually they catch up with the killer and in a really neat twist decide to try the murderer in their own criminal court, an actual court not for criminals but made up entirely of criminals. How's that for a plot!?
If you're not a fan of old movies just because you've never given them a shot this might be a good first one to try, old movies really don't come much better than "M"