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Audience Member The worst 1.5 hours of silent footage with card titles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member First time viewing: I'm sure it's not a conspiracy to bestow high praise because it's expected, so I'm going to watch it again. And then again and again, until I get it. A repeat epitomy as I had with Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad. 1/2 star Umpteenth time viewing: yup. Finally got there. 'Tis greatness. It breathes its own life. And I love it. Will be inspired by it. No stopping a wonder like this. 5 stars Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member It's unnecessarily epic, but it's also at least 40 years ahead of it's time. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Almost 25 years before the first James Bond novel was published, Fritz Lang had already created a remarkable spy film that feels like it would fit right in with the adventures of 007. This movie is loaded with intrigue, danger, and double-agents. I was amazed how much it all came together like a classic spy story, and I followed the whole thing from start to finish despite limited dialogue. It delved into some strange sub-plots with the Japanese spies that puzzled me. I liked some of those moments in the movie, but didn't understand why they were necessary to the overall story. It was in some of these strange detours of the plot that I occasionally lost focus on the film (always a struggle for me when watching silent films.) But those moments were few and far between because most of the movie gripped me from beginning to end. I loved the actors in this movie, particularly Rudolf Klein-Rogge who plays a great criminal mastermind. The movie had a few twists that genuinely surprised me, and there was one sequence that was so perfectly presented that it had me gritting my teeth in tense excitement, wondering what would happen next. While these movies by Fritz Lang aren't exactly the kind of films that I can see myself watching again and again, I am constantly wowed by how much he was ahead of his time. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member another winner from german director fritz lang Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member The ending is unforgettable. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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