Review of Suddenly Last Summer (2012) by Sausages M — 18 May 2013

Look who wrote it! Look at that cast! This should be brilliant, but in the end it's silly, overwrought dreck. Hepburn is the best thing in it; obviously understanding what a pretentious train-wreck she'd signed up for, she has fun with it.

But Clift seems to have just wandered out of his car crash and sleepwalks through his part, doing what he always does but only in a shadow of it. Liz Taylor starts off well, but falls into the trap of trying to ACT in 50 foot high neon letters and starts to eat the set.

In this way she rather mirrors the screenplay itself. It starts off quite promisingly but about 50 minutes in I began to get very bored, and it almost seems like the film senses its audience's boredom and overcompensates with a bunch of scenes that amount to a lot of unnecessary visual tat.

Consequently I went and started reading reviews and soon came across 'the awful truth' and just thought oh dear. However I did keep it on to the end, but found myself wondering why this rather thin and unbelieveable premise seemed to be taking so long about telling itself.

So what can you say? With some heavy editing you might have achieved a so-bad-it's-good campfest. But there is none and so what you have is a deeply uneven mess.