A lone dissent?

Rating: Null/10 (17 April 2000)

I'm not sure. I wasn't terribly touched by this film. It seemed to me that the dialog was canny and the characters were archetypal. Bogart was too hard-boiled, Lorre was too silly, , Bergman was too helpless, Rains was just completely blank. There were holes in the plot and the romance was deeply expressed but unconvincing because it was undeveloped. Lines kept being repeated--and it wasn't that the characters had their own catchphrases, it was as if the authors had forgotten that they had already used those words.

Hrmph.