Review of Ministry of Fear (1944) by Millo T — 01 Jan 2011

I expected a lot from a combination of a Graham Greene´s story and Fritz Lang´s direction. And at the beginning, it seems magnificient, with the extraordinary atmosphere from the German director, and the curtains of mistery that appear after each step, away from a very good work with scenography and cinematography.

However, the film looses that great impact as time goes by, and becomes a more much conventional spies story. As a Flixter pal said, it had all the ingredients to be the best film noir story ever, but it was only close.

A new revision of this story, increasing the film noir tone, getting deeper in the psychological aspects of the characters, increasing the number of twists and overcoming the war stereotypes, will be necessary to make a perfect story from this classic, which, anyway, is deserved to be seen.