John Cale imitates Herrmann.

Rating: 4/10 (6 September 2003)

I have always admired John Cale, as a former Velvet Underground member and as a solo artist.Here he gives us his Hermann act ,and much of the score recalls the strident brilliance of "Psycho" ,notably during the scene Bale joins the gay golden boy in the bathroom .Of course,it does not match Bernard Herrmann's magnum opus,but anyway who could surpass him?
MINOR SPOILER As for the movie,it's a pretty disappointing menu:Bale overplays and we've already seen that,much better,with Jack Nicholson.His character is obnoxious ,a spoilt child (don't we learn he was born silver spoon in hand,his father owning the company for which he "works"?).There's the obligatory coup de théâtre (à la "the sixth sense" or "fight club" ) :it's not what you thought it was .I begin to get tired of these "unexpected" endings.Dafoe,the beest actor of the movie is wasted with his part of an almost colomboesque detective.