The First Deadly Sin Reviews
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rindn5
July 7, 2008
I liked this movie but it was just too sad, it'll be awhile before i can watch it again...sniff...sniff
February 27, 2013
Although The First Deadly Sin features a good performance from Frank Sinatra in his final role and a good chilling musical score, the pacing is too slow and the events are too small to keep the audience entertained, and Faye Dunaway's role is too small to even nominate her for a Razzie Award. The First Deadly Sin just doesn't keep the viewer stimulated enough for them to care about the film, so it's not even worth trying.
November 11, 2012
a crackling police thriller with a hard emotional twist. sinatra shines in his final film role. not many movies like this made any more.
moviebuff18cab
February 4, 2007
THE FIRST DEADLY SIN (1980)
Dave J
June 14, 2011
(1980) The First Deadly Sin
THRILLER
Story adapted from a Lawrence Sanders novel about actor and singer Frank Sinatra (after a ten year old hiatas from films) stars as Sergent Edward looking for a serial killer who kills people unexpectedly by using a mountain pickaxe instrument! At the same time Faye Dunaway as his wife is in hospital bed recovering from sugery after a kidney gets removed!
Bad, amaterish full of plot holes which upon watching it is like the film is built around the Frank Sinatra persona whose playing a sergent! Dunaways talents are very wasted as she lies in bed with makeup on whose supposed to be getting well and has no relation to solving the random killings! I struggled very hard to watch this film and with every continued viewing, I end up falling asleep because they're crime and thriller movies which're more entertaining than this. The killer is immediately reveiled, and because he is deemed as a serial killer, other police stations don't seem to care as much as the Sinatra character, who don't compare notes and are more concerned with image than anything! It's supposed to be a poor reflection about how NYC used to treat it's citizens but it's very poor even at doing that as well! Theirs also supposed to be a race issue in brief social commentary as well in which if the person is white, he wouldn't be convicted or granted a warrant as much as a white Caucasion guy- this film is so boring, it's like reading a novel to be put to sleep!
1.5 out of 4
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
(1980) The First Deadly Sin
THRILLER
Story adapted from a Lawrence Sanders novel about actor and singer Frank Sinatra (after a ten year old hiatas from films) stars as Sergent Edward looking for a serial killer who kills people unexpectedly by using a mountain pickaxe instrument! At the same time Faye Dunaway as his wife is in hospital bed recovering from sugery after a kidney gets removed!
Bad, amaterish full of plot holes which upon watching it is like the film is built around the Frank Sinatra persona whose playing a sergent! Dunaways talents are very wasted as she lies in bed with makeup on whose supposed to be getting well and has no relation to solving the random killings! I struggled very hard to watch this film and with every continued viewing, I end up falling asleep because they're crime and thriller movies which're more entertaining than this. The killer is immediately reveiled, and because he is deemed as a serial killer, other police stations don't seem to care as much as the Sinatra character, who don't compare notes and are more concerned with image than anything! It's supposed to be a poor reflection about how NYC used to treat it's citizens but it's very poor even at doing that as well! Theirs also supposed to be a race issue in brief social commentary as well in which if the person is white, he wouldn't be convicted or granted a warrant as much as a white Caucasion guy- this film is so boring, it's like reading a novel to be put to sleep!
1.5 out of 4
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