The best things always happen when it's raining.

Quite a wonderful psychological horror film. It's very mysterious but not complicated to follow and provides some interesting perspectives on how we value life and experience.

Excellent paranoid sci-fi thriller. The premise is somewhat similar to The Face of Another, which coincidentally was released the same year. While I think Teshigahara goes to slightly more interesting places with the idea, Frankenheimer manages some intriguing angles as well, especially when he utilizes unusual techniques like the subjective camera. There's a lengthy hippie scene that feels mostly unnecessary, and I saw the ending coming a mile away, but otherwise I have no complaints.

I was thinking quite much what Thanklos said. Rock Hudson shined out of the cast and I also liked how nothing was free of charge in this story. Evidently there's a flip side you are not counting on. Basically human is never satisfied what he's got. He's constantly dreaming something better. Or just something he cannot possess.

I watched this on a whim, Rock Hudson in a main role at this late date seemed like something to see. Needless to say, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Middle age malaise meets a twilight zone/kafka atmosphere to horrifying results. Special note for the last of that marvelous b&w work of James Wong Howe, he pulls out some crazy angles here. One hell of a watch.

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Good believeable sci fi and intersting characters

A very good movie about aging and second chances. Bleak, with fine performances by Rock Hudson and Will Geer.

Seconds has an interesting concept, and the discomfort that Hudson's Wilson has with his new youth is well portrayed, but the rest of the cast is distant. This, and some interesting camera work, gives the film an eerie atmosphere, but also makes it tedious, as the concept can only tease out the reveal for so long. When the ending arrives it is not unexpected, although it still poignant. I appreciated how Wilson could escape from his body but not himself or his desire to correct past mistakes.

Bold, disturbing, gripping, with some great ideas and a superb ending. Stylistically it is adventurous and though the expressionism didn't always work for me it certainly makes for an eyecatching piece of cinema. Like many of the best pieces of sci-fi it uses the sci-fi elements as a springboard for exploring real-world issues and ideas (in this case relating to personal identity).

Humans will never be satisfied with being human.

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Wonderful black and white cinematography helps complement an eerie atmosphere and a quite literal existential crisis. It's not engaging in every scene, but I always love the payoff of a well executed sci-fi (even one I know ahead of time).

Interesting if not entirely succesful 60s time capsule; dated in many regards, but tale of frustration with one's lot in life has some present-day resonance. Oddly cast Hudson is actually very good, playing against his heartthrob image, but film's strengths are in Frankenheimer's direction, which creates an unsettling, menacing atmosphere from the get-go, a creepy music score, and a matter-of-fact handling of a rather extraordinary sci-fi concept (even more so back in '66). A real curio.

A twisty sci-fi/horror flick about the flexibility of identity and the lurking truth that personal reinvention won't necessarily heal wounds of the soul. Frankenheimer directs with a cunning intrusiveness, extracting every last bit of creepiness out of every moment. Rock Hudson may have been a dandy realization of coveted vigorous masculinity (yeah, yeah, I know) circa 1966 but that doesn't mean he's much of an actor. The troubled undercurrents of his role simply seem beyond his capabilities.

I really appreciated its inventiveness, though I kept thinking back to "The Face of Another" which coincidentally came out the same year, and touched on the themes much better. Still, an interesting sci-fi.

Sometimes these limited-FX sf movies that are more about their characters can work. This one does.

The third-greatest science fiction of all time, after "2001" and Tarkovsky's "Solaris."

A compelling sci-fi concept elevated by a personal story and made unique by its unsettling style.