Return of the Fly
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In Theaters : July, 1959 |
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Return of the Fly Customer Reviews
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Would have been a good Twilight Zone episode.
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The Fly is probably not as good as you remember. Oh yes, it does have that gorgeous 1958 CinemaScope sheen, and bears the distinction of being one of the few really big budget science fiction films from that entire decade. Alas, it is also a drawn-out, talky bore with some really obnoxious performances.
To begin with, the film spends about 25 minutes stringing along a pre "flashback" sequence. Not the worst idea, but it drags on and on. Vincent Price prances about like an effeminate dilbert and the wife has to act "worried" ad nauseum. After about 40 minutes we get to the actual science fiction portion; a dark, twisted little tale, that is unfortunately dragged on and on and on. But it is not explored nearly enough, and the simple SFX are just repeated over and over. There are exactly 3 high points in this film, one of them being the classic ending.
The Fly is an inflated blimp of a film, overwrought, overbaked, wasting its time on "suspense" when more Science Fiction would have been better. |
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