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BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse" or "The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse" is a 100-minute black-and-white film from Germany from 1960. And since the creation of Mabuse decades ago, there have been so many films about him (including some that are wrongly considered classics), and also many followed after 1960, even today. This one here has the advantage of the name Fritz Lang attached to it, the German silent film legend. But this one here is of course not a silent film anymore. For Lang, it was a bit of a return back to the roots with making another Mabuse movie and here we have one of his final works. The cast is decent with Peter van Eyck, Gert Fröbe ("Goldfinger", a personal favorite), Werner Peters and Wolfgang Preiss. It needed a better-written and acted character than Addams' though. Unfortunately, overall the script did not do too much for me. I have to say without mentioning Mabuse by name, this could have been a completely random film about another villain character. The significance attached to its name does not only come from saying the name all the time.It is not a failure by any means, but I thought with the cast Lang had he could have made a better film here. Maybe Thea von Harbou's creative touch was missing. Still the movie has a couple solid scenes that were tense and interesting to watch like the one outside the window for example, but overall it just felt like all the killing and drama was included to be shocking and mysterious, not as ingredients of a meal, of an edge-of-seat story that had me and other audiences captivated and genuinely caring about what will happen to the characters, who will live and who will die. Best thing about the film is clearly the acting, but even with how good it was, it was not enough to elevate the mediocre script to a level where I could recommend this movie. Thumbs down from me. Don't see it.

Robert J. Maxwell Fritz Lang is a talented director. He's the guy who made "Metropolis," a startling vision of the future before such visions were cool. And he made "M", which turned a monster into an object of pity. In America, after slipping out of Germany, he directed a couple of fascinating noirs.But you wouldn't know it from "Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse." Even the always-interesting presence of Peter Van Eyck, Hollywood's Ur-German, and the almost unrecognizable Wolfgang Preiss, can't save this from being a fairly typical B-movie with a plot more confusing than most.After an opening that might have come directly from a Charlie Chan movie -- a victim collapses in public, shot in the head with an almost undetectable sliver of metal -- we are taken to a garishly made-up Dawn Addams perched on the ledge of a tall building, about to jump for reasons we know not of.She's talked in by Van Eyck and there follow innumerable perplexing plot developments organized around a couple of themes that don't seem to have much to do with one another.Lang often made good use of mirrors and he does so here. And Gert Frobe turns in a good performance as a shambling, good-natured, pipe-smoking detective.The story, though, is full of incidents that may be suspenseful in themselves without helping the plot in an immediate way. It plods along like somebody with a club foot.It's a disappointing piece of work, slow and uninteresting. Fans of Fritz may get more out of it than I did.

Eumenides_0 Fritz Lang's final movie saw him return to one of his greatest creations, the enigmatic criminal master Dr. Mabuse. Much like the influence this villain has over people in the movies, so was the influence he had over Lang, who made three distinct Dr. Mabuse movies in three different periods of his life.In The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse we go to post-war Germany. Mysterious, ingenious crimes are succeeding one after another, so brilliant in technique that the police remember the crimes of Dr. Mabuse, just before Hitler took over.Meanwhile a rich American industrialist is in Germany to close a deal. At the Luxor Hotel he saves a woman from committing suicide. But this altruistic gesture plunges him into a world of deception, blackmail, voyeurism and international crime.Trying to get to the bottom of this is Commissioner Kras, with the help of a shifty insurance salesman and a blind psychic.Lang's movies have always been ahead of their time. His silent movies showed an amazing understanding of the language of cinema, and when sound came he incorporated it into the movie as a storytelling tool and not just an excuse for talking heads. In this movie we see the genesis of modern thrillers like the Bond franchise: secret criminal empires, shadowy villains, cars with intricate gadgets, the use of secret cameras to spy on people, unique weapons. But even after fifty years, here it still looks fresh and bold.Much like The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, this is one of the best thrillers I've ever seen. It's suspenseful, it's surprising, and it's intelligent. Kras is not the moronic policeman we see so often in cinema; he's clever, he's good at deducing things. And Dr. Mabuse is always one step ahead, always has contingency plans, knows everything. How distant he is from the barely-articulate villains of our times.Any film lover will do himself a favor by watching this neglected gem.

evilskip What a swan song this is! Wild and wooly fun from Fritz Lang. Dr Mabuse is running his criminal empire from the Hotel Luxor. His henchmen never see his face as they receive their orders via radio.Without giving too much away his plans involve the takeover of a rich man's empire and general blackmail and murder.Gert Frobe plays the inspector out to nab Mabuse before Mabuse kills him.Funniest scene takes place in the Inspector's office when everybody starts to fall before a bomb goes off! After watching 5 Mabuse movies in a row this is easily the best.It is available from Sinister Cinema.