"Impact" is an okay murder yarn that starts off very well but which gets
progressively sillier as it goes along. Brian Donleavy is the rich
schmuck whose wife, Helen Walker, plans to murder so she can inherit his
fortune and run off with her lover. However, it's the lover who ends up
dead leaving Donleavy to ponder his future and whether he should take
revenge or not. As soon as the then 72 year old Charles Coburn turns up
as the investigating cop you know the movie is heading for trouble and
by the time new girlfriend Ella Raines starts running around like Nancy
Drew minus her Hardy Boys, things have gone fairly pear-shaped. Still,
Donleavy makes a fairly personable hero and Walker was always good,
particularly when she was being bad. Shorn of 30 minutes or so it might
have made a tight little B-movie; as it is, it's drawn out way beyond
its welcome.
Monday, 22 October 2018
IMPACT no stars
"Impact" is an okay murder yarn that starts off very well but which gets
progressively sillier as it goes along. Brian Donleavy is the rich
schmuck whose wife, Helen Walker, plans to murder so she can inherit his
fortune and run off with her lover. However, it's the lover who ends up
dead leaving Donleavy to ponder his future and whether he should take
revenge or not. As soon as the then 72 year old Charles Coburn turns up
as the investigating cop you know the movie is heading for trouble and
by the time new girlfriend Ella Raines starts running around like Nancy
Drew minus her Hardy Boys, things have gone fairly pear-shaped. Still,
Donleavy makes a fairly personable hero and Walker was always good,
particularly when she was being bad. Shorn of 30 minutes or so it might
have made a tight little B-movie; as it is, it's drawn out way beyond
its welcome.
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