Unpredictable

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2003)

I first saw this movie in a theater in 1980. I hated it. Maybe it's the fact that I did not experience that type of film before, or just didn't get it.
A few years later, I rented the thing on VHS, just to see what I missed. And you know what? I loved it. I figure that I like this film because of the unpredictable-ness of most of the scenes:
Bobby di Cicco hides in a shack, up on a shelf, for his girlfriend's father. The father causes a dustcloud when coming in. Bobby finally is surrounded in dust, and you just predict that he will sneeze. Instead, a paint-can almost slips from the shelve, and Bobby barely catches it. Again, people predict that a falling paintcan will alarm the father. None of this happens, but the shelve together with Bobby and the paintcan and lots of extra dust, fall from the wall/ceiling. This is just one example.

I now own the flic on DVD, and as always, I like the making-of and other documentary stuff as much as the film itself. I'd give it an 8/10.