Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

MartinHafer "Paper Man" is a mildly interesting murder mystery about the dangers of computers when there is a maniac on hand to manipulate them. It's all mean to be rather scary but today seems a bit muddled and silly.When the film begins, a college computer geek somehow gets a credit card in the mail that is not his. Instead of throwing it away or alerting the company, he goes to school and consults with a super-geek (Dean Stockwell). Soon he and his friends are spending on a dummy account and although illegal, all is well in the world...or so they think. Slowly through the course of the film folks start to die...all because some evil and unknown force is manipulating computers and making them kill!!I think when the film debuted it was seen as prescient and interesting...but today it comes off as a bit silly and dated. I especially thought that the real killer and their identity seemed a bit of a hoot. There are better ways you could spend your time than watch this one.

steven-87 I see that this movie was made in 1971 - so I do wonder how much it was influenced by the Journey To The Unknown episode "The Madison Equation" from 3 years earlier. The idea of computers running riot with a "mind of their own" and with dire consequences was best achieved in "Fail Safe" but it's amazing how all three of these have managed to highlight, in their own way, what might happen if man puts too much store by these machines. We don't hear so much of that now - are we too trusting? Felt that 90 minutes was a bit overlong for this particular one, though. The story dragged a bit halfway through and the rationale for the creation of Henry Norman just didn't ring true. Stockwell carries the movie, frankly...most of the rest of the cast just seem there as filler. There appeared to me to be TWO twists to the ending - the obvious one and the one in the movie's final minute when the Sheriff is in the room and the date is revealed. Nicely ambiguous! One very confusing point for me, though: -James Stacy's character's demise......just what happened to him in the end? 90 minutes of good fun - but "The Madison Equation" is a better piece of made-for-TV viewing covering this same subject. And it's 40 minutes shorter.

Chase_Witherspoon When a super computer apparently turns on a group of naughty tech students who've created a bogus identity to essentially commit credit card fraud, the student who wrote the programme (Stockwell) becomes prime suspect in the series of bizarre accidents that follow. Stefanie Powers, James Stacy, Elliot Street and Tina Chen initially profit handsomely from Stockwell's handy-work, but the sheriff (Ross Elliot) suspects that Stockwell may not be as introverted and shy as his reputation suggests. As the "accidents" escalate, a twisted nerve is revealed that might identify the culprit. While it's dated, the concept of the super computer becoming an all powerful entity of destruction is a theme that's as prolific as they come forty years later. Stockwell (sporting an epic bouffant) is suitably suspicious (and not unlike his character in "Compulsion"), while Powers is an attractive and sympathetic psychology graduate, ex-Marine Stacy the stereotypical jock, Chen providing the ubiquitous ethnicity and Street a likable, computer geek, perhaps creating the "nerd" mould. James Olson has a key supporting role as the computer technician.I saw the 90 minute version, and the suspense builds nicely to a climax that while not entirely telegraphed, isn't going to shock most armchair sleuths. Nevertheless, the acting is watchable, the dialogue realistic and the narrative consistent. Dated but entertaining mid-week movie.

Pamela Harrison I can remember seeing "The Paper Man " during a midnight movie session in about 1975. I can remember being terrified, as a 12 year old, thinking that this was possible. I think it is amazing to think that this movie now has possibilities of becoming true and actually happening. It is a scary thought. I love to watch movies about computers taking over and there are several I have seen. I would love to see this movie again as it scared the life out of me and I wonder if after all the horrors since, if it can still scare me.