Bribaba's Movie Review of Seconds

Rating of
4/4

Seconds

Well worth the time
Bribaba - wrote on 05/04/11

John Frankenheimer's stunning mix of sci-fi and thriller was never likely to attain the audience it deserved. Downbeat from the off, it tells of an elderly business man disillusioned that the American dream doesn't add up to a hill of beans. Rather than going quietly to the grave he instead enters into a Faustian pact with a mysterious organisation that promises a second chance - in this case coming back as a young man (Rock Hudson) . But the existential angst soon piles up as he tries to come to terms with the 'transfer'. Ace cameraman James Wong Howe superbly captures the air of menace, while Hudson is surprisingly convincing as the man who isn't quite what he seems

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