Seven viewings later and I still have no idea what this movie's about. I guess it's about 2 1/2 hours of two countries not speaking to each other. Unfortunately not as thrilling as it sounds.

Bad accents, white guys as Koobans (their pronunciation, not mine), Invincible Roscoe Lee Browne, and a whole lot of talking about absolutely nothing. What a pile of suck.

not bad, Hitchcock still keeps his quality

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pithy review: one of the duller gems in hitch's brilliant career. one sparkling moment: juanita de cordoba's last scene..... topaz: word origin derived (possibly) from the Arabic, meaning "the subject of the search". indeed this topaz does involve a search but by the time the culprit is unearthed i felt more like saying ho-hum, then aha! summary: i'm as big a fan of hitchcock as anyone but this "semi-precious" stone requires no examination, close or otherwise.

Hitch's craft is beginning to show fatigue, and he struggles to keep the overly complex multi-protagonist spy-story flowing. Still, there are moments of the master's trademark suspense and the plot, long as it may be, is pretty interesting.

Way too long and completely uninvolving. The only time it picks up at all is when it moves to Cuba. John Vernon is the best thing about the picture. Everybody else just kind of seems to be sleepwalking through it. Then there's the weird music that starts playing toward the end when they're tracking someone down--like it's a French farce or something. At the end you don't really feel like you've gotten to know any of the people at all. Suspense/thriller? Guess again.

There are a few good scenes, a couple of suspenseful moments worthy of being called "Hitchcockian", and the thing with the dress was lovely. But my lord, the rest of it is talky and dull. Most of it is an interminable borefest. The characters are almost entirely without personality. The narrative focus is all over the fucking place, robbing the viewer of any chance to get interested in any of the characters. Also, the music absolutely sucks. His heart clearly wasn't in this one at all.

Reminds me of those meandering, ineffectual [Moore] Bond flicks. A few moments of genuine tension save it from being completely unremarkable.

Interesting story but a little to long for my taste

If only Hitchcock could have filmed the ending he desired. Some scenes are as good as anything in Army of Shadows of Battle of Algiers, while others fall flat.

One of the lesser Hitchcock affairs, but it had some okay moments. In general, a fairly mediocre spy affair.