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CodyZamboni Z Intense, meta, disturbing, As Hollywood old fashioned movie horror comes face to face with today's real life everyday horror, Final triumphant swan song of Boris Karloff, and an impressive debut for Peter Bogdanovich. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/18/24 Full Review Alec B Karloff is great here (obviously) and Bogdanovich really was taping into something about American violence that unfortunately remains eternally relevant. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/20/24 Full Review Clint W I had first heard of the movie from the horror documentary Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue, decided to check it out. It gave a simple message that real life events top any horror movie, in this case gun violence, but that's about it. The shooter is barely fleshed out, just decides to go on a killing spree out of nowhere. It left me feeling unfulfilled as to his reasoning. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/22/23 Full Review dave s There are a lot of reasons to want to like Targets. It's director Peter Bogdanovich's first film. It's Boris Karloff's final movie of any significance. It's got a great backstory courtesy of producer Roger Corman. It's one of the first films shot by the great cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs. Despite all of this, it only partially works. It is essentially two separate and disparate stories (a fading horror star coming to terms with the end of his career; a sniper on a killing spree) that merge in a chaotic final scene. There are some directorial flashes of brilliance from Bogdanovich and the story itself is a prescient look at violence in America, but there are just too many shortcomings to give it a full recommendation. The sets are awful, some of the dialogue is brutal, the editing at times is choppy, and many of the performances are sub-standard. Despite all of that, it has some truly chilling moments and certainly foreshadowed the brilliance of what was to come from Bogdanovich. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I think Roger Ebert was right when he described this film as an interesting one but not necessarily a good one. The two narratives stay separate for most of the film, but collide at the end in an interesting commentary on America's prudishness and self image. Can America tell what is real? Unfortunately it's very slow (and not really in a good way). Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Karloff is great here (obviously) and Bogdanovich really was taping into something about American violence that unfortunately remains eternally relevant. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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