To my absolute astonishment, I enjoyed the remake more than the original.
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01/09/04
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Psycho (1998)
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Reviews Counted:69
Fresh:23
Rotten:46
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Van Sant's pointless remake neither improves or illuminates Hitchcock's original.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: A remake of director Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller about a young woman, who, while on the run after stealing $40,000 from her boss, is brutally murdered in the shower of a motel she is staying... [More]
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Reviews for Psycho
Van Sant's edgy undercurrents will jolt multiplexers new to the film.
01/01/00
No review available.
07/12/02
The new cast just cannot live up to the one Hitch assembled back in 1960!
01/01/00
No review available.
01/01/00
Vaughn, from the outset, seems like a loose cannon, a nut case, a psycho. Unlike Anthony Perkins who, at first, appeared as a shy mama's boy, Vaughn adds an extra layer of menace to his Norman that renders Van Sant's film a bit a-kilter.
01/01/00
A lot less scary!
01/01/00
Top CriticThere's nothing really wrong here, but it all seems uninspired.
01/01/00
Vaughn's Norman Bates is much inferior because he lacks the natural neurosis of Anthony Perkins.
08/13/07
Vince Vaughn is probably the best person you can get to fill Anthony Perkins' shoes; he can be one of America's best film stars one day, and that is evident in the way he treats his character on screen.
01/01/00
Less a remake and more a scene-by-scene reconstruction, with all of the original dialogue intact.
01/01/00
It's so slavishly similar to its predecessor -- right down to the symbolic lettering on Marion's license plates -- that there's little to spark fresh discussion except the acting.
01/01/00
Hitchcock probably wouldn't tell this story if he was making films today, and he certainly wouldn't tell it this way, with internal 'voices', back projection, minimal nudity and violence.
02/09/06
Unnecessary!
01/01/00
Is this film better than the original? The answer is no, not quite, but to my shock, it is just about as good of a remake as could have possibly been expected.
01/01/00
Vaughn and Heche bring energy and freshness to the parts originated by Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. Heche is so good, in fact, and so frisky and watchable in her role, that after her grisly demise in the shower you miss her for a long time.
01/01/00
Top CriticVan Sant's pseudo-Xerox is flat, mannered and often downright boring!
01/01/00
Since this is a virtual shot-by-shot, line-by-line remake of the original masterpiece, it’s like watching a new version of a Shakespeare play. Think about it.
01/01/00
Personally, I found the remake weaker than the original (which was only vaguely interesting anyway; then again, it's pretty much the same movie).
04/02/05
Contains nothing to outrage or offend partisans of the original, yet neither does it stand to add much to their appreciation.
03/26/09
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