Dead Ringers
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Movie Reviews of Dead Ringers
Movie Review: Just Strange
Summary: 3 Stars
David Cronenberg's Siamese-twin freak show with Jeremy Irons playing two gynecologists at the peak of their profession. One brother, the more manipulative of the two, seduces women and then passes them off to his brother when he grows bored.
However, they encounter a woman who manages to captivate them both; sounds conventional from here right? Come now, it's Cronenberg.
The film progresses into a totally bizarre pastiche of self-mutilation, deception, and murder, all set to the tone of the invasive nature of gynecology.
Jeremy Irons is absolutely excellent as the twin brothers as he is able to convey which brother is which in every scene of the film despite their identical looks and voice. The subject matter however, is simply too creepy for most tastes.
Movie Review: 1988: Dead Ringers on DVD.
Summary: 3 Stars
This film is disturbing, Jeremy Irons portrayal, although well acted, of two identical twins, is hard to watch, the content of the film is quite sick, to say the least. A well executed film, by Cronenberg, but it doesn't really make fun viewing.Movie Review: Dead Movie..
Summary: 2 Stars
The Amazon review and all the other hype on this listing might suggest that this is an interesting movie. Quite the contrary actually. Though it started off well, it was frustrating how long and slow it was in reaching its anti-climactic ending. Gimme a break, is about all I could think from the second half on, and for more than one reason. A ridiculously convoluted, wanna-be artsy plot and typical melodramatic overacting compliments of Jeremy Irons are only half the bargain in Dead Ringers. The other half is a more or less glacially slow film, that may keep you watching till the end only to realize you'd have done better turning it off and going to bed.
If you liked him in Damaged, then you may enjoy this as well. I will say it wasn't quite as bad as Damaged in terms of melodrama, but it does have a fair dose of 80s cheese about it and yes the 'artiste's' over-zealous flair. Damaged tried to be art, and so did this one, albeit creepier than average "art". Yes, there's something of a gimmick in Irons playing twin brothers with opposite personalities at the same time, and yes, it must have been a trick to get two Jeremy Irons on the screen at once - but beyond this the movie doesn't have much going for it. Its logic and character motivation make sense only in the mind of the twins - the audience will be thinking "What?!". Also, they should have chosen a more attractive female lead. Her acting was ok but was hard to believe Irons would let himself go to pieces over her.
Final analysis: Dead Ringers tries to create a world, a situation, which never comes off as fully convincing, is occasionally self-consciously over-acted by Irons himself, and finally is nothing less than boring from well before it's half over. In terms of generating interest, it comes nowhere close to Cronenberg's better films "The Fly" or "Videodrome".
Movie Review: Down right weird!
Summary: 1 Stars
I saw Dead Ringers in the movies. The theater was filled with mostly couples. When it was over, as we walked out, laughter began to spread as we all recognized that we as couples were having the same conversation; "Whose stupid idea was it to pay money to see this move"!