Review of Double Indemnity (1973) by Ryan H — 08 Mar 2009
Loved every minute of it. I'm most impressed by how versatile a director Billy Wilder is. He can do any genre and infuse it with a sense of humanity and humor. Some might stay the story is cliche but so many other movies have ripped this one off over the years, that the aspects became cliches because this movie did it first.
Personally, I reveled in the way it was shot, lit, acted, written, and presented. Edward G. Robinson made me want to become an insurance man in the 1940s. And Wilder was already defying convention in the way he introduces the killer right off the bat yet keeps you on the edge of your seat by watching how it all unfolded.
As always, he caps it all off with a pitch-perfect ending. I don't have a bad thing to say about it.
This review of Double Indemnity (1973) was written by Ryan H on 08 Mar 2009.
Double Indemnity has generally received positive reviews.
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