Product: Pickup on South Street (The Criterion Collection) (1953)
Rating: 1.0
Waste of a great premise
If you're a big fan of film noir you might enjoy the camera angles, picture and sound. Personally I was disappointed in the story.I heard a review and thought it sounded like a great idea for a story. A guy on a train steals a woman's purse on a subway, not knowing that she's carrying microfilm which she's supposed to deliver to a Russian spy. Suddenly, this thief has the cops and the Russians looking for him.It sounded like a great idea, but the story was a huge disappointment to me. The characters were not very believable. For example, the woman who has her purse stolen, tracks down the thief and tries to get the film back. He punches her in the face and she falls in love with him.To me the story was very weak, which spoiled the movie. If you're interested in the movie for the technical stuff, you might enjoy it. Personally, I didn't find it very entertaining or believable.