This Can't Happen Here

Bergman could be thankful at least that he didn't have a writing credit on this boring, muddled, wholly unsatisfying screenplay. There are moments, such as the ludicrous gun-trading confrontation between Natas (spell it backwards o ho ho!) and Almkvist, that almost seem to be a parody of film noir. Scenes stumble from one to the next, characters pop in and out without explanation, the speeches are terribly overwritten... it's all so sloppy and unfulfilling, and ultimately pointless.

OK, the scene where they're supposed to do Tense Spy Stuff in a cinema that's showing Donald Duck at full volume has some comedic value. Watch that bit. Never mind the rest.

49.500

Must be one of the worst in Ingmar Bergman filmography. At times it seems like it was about to turn into a good mystery, but in the end it simply wasn't, with anything good getting buried in all the bad ideas that didn't work.