If you enjoy stiff acting, terrible lighting and sound, and a herky-jerky plot that makes chaos theory seem predictable, you'll love this film. I did! Hardly a minute went by without some howler of a gaff....actors mumble (the guy in the mask was barely understandable), the dialog was incomprehensible, and the lighting hurt our eyes. The love scenes were tragicomic, the women were bimbos, and the grief of the character whose lost both her father and her lover to the guillotine lasted about 45 seconds. Nobody walked into a room aware that other people were present. We were sure the film was made in the sixties and every one was stoned, until we discovered it was made only 8 years ago. The twists of plot were so convoluted that I suspect some liberties were taken with Dumas' work. He's a brilliant writer but we couldn't make heads nor tails out of what was going on. In all, it was a SUPER enjoyable 85 minutes since we love bad films. Highly recommended for fans of B- movies.
Review of The Man in the Iron Mask
