The Postman Always Rings Twice

Boy, was this one a doozey or what? Overacted, overscored, and underwritten. I felt like I was watching a stage show, which works okay with a stationary story, but the most important moments of the plot take place when the characters are on the move. The actors try to lead the atmosphere, and I see how hard they try. The characters’ actions are so fickle. It seems like this was a production put together by guys looking for money more than a group trying to pay homage to a popular novel, and granted, I’ve yet to read the book and it may be just as painful to endure, but it looks to me like the underlying purpose behind every decision disappears so that the characters can have their stereotypical moments with dramatic music, corny lines, and picturesque poses for the advertisement reel. If all bad murder plots were filmed by the same man, you could tell he hasn’t learned a goddamn thing over the years. It’s such a disappointment to see that even today people manage to squeeze out staged pictures just as bad as this one.