Contains nothing to outrage or offend partisans of the original, yet neither does it stand to add much to their appreciation.
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03/26/09
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Psycho (1998)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:4
Rotten:9
Average Rating:4.4/10
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
1 - 13 (sorted by date)
Top CriticNo review available.
07/12/02
Top CriticA lot less scary!
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Top CriticVaughn 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 CriticThe movie lacks the chutzpah to even be a travesty.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis is a lifeless, workmanlike project; all tension has been leeched away. Also, it's in color.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt remains the most structurally elegant and sneakily playful of thrillers!
01/01/00
Top CriticVan Sant clearly knows that if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and his own smooth touch is neatly sympathetic with his predecessor's.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe film is polished when it should be edgy and impersonal when it should be seductive.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe movie is an invaluable experiment in the theory of cinema, because it demonstrates that a shot-by-shot remake is pointless; genius apparently resides between or beneath the shots, or in chemistry that cannot be timed or counted.
01/01/00
Top CriticVan Sant has cranked up the realism about 20 points, but somehow what he achieves for the effort is a larger sense of banality!
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
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