Trial

Rating:
Summary: Pretty boring
Review: I first saw this movie long ago. I couldn't remember much about it, so I got it and watched it again. I must have walked out the first time, because while I remembered bits and pieces of the first part, the last part was like a new movie to me. I struggled to stay awake. My girlfriend went to bed. Film classic? Maybe, but I don't know why.

Incidentally, it seems to me the late smash hit "Chicago" has the same essential plot line, except in "Chicago" the accused really did it, and "Chicago" is gloriously and necessarily pumped up with some fine song and dance.

Rating:
Summary: Pretty boring
Review: I first saw this movie long ago. I couldn't remember much about it, so I got it and watched it again. I must have walked out the first time, because while I remembered bits and pieces of the first part, the last part was like a new movie to me. I struggled to stay awake. My girlfriend went to bed. Film classic? Maybe, but I don't know why.

Incidentally, it seems to me the late smash hit "Chicago" has the same essential plot line, except in "Chicago" the accused really did it, and "Chicago" is gloriously and necessarily pumped up with some fine song and dance.

Rating:
Summary: movie 5 stars the alpha video dvd version 1 star
Review: The movie is amazing, an all time favorite of mine. Visually haunting to say the least, extremely surrealistic and uneasy in its tone, in short an amazing film that truly is Welles best work. Anthony Perkins is great as poor K and the rest of the cast is stellar as well. However the real point of this review is to let people know just how poor the $$ Alpha Video version is. The picture quality is below average at best, also no widescreen here and on a film that's so visually commanding as this it's a downright sin to not let us see the entire composition of each and every frame. The sound is terribly out of synch and extremely muddy.
With all that said though I still recommend everyone see this movie no matter what you have to do to see it...so 8 dollars is a good price just to see it I'd say. But if you're bothered by bad sound and picture quality and have already seen this film steer clear of this version.

Rating:
Summary: Cheap Version - and it shows - Good Film Though...
Review: The transfer is terrible - the sound awful- but if you want to see a great film for hardly any money - this is not a terrible choice.
Welles is one of the few directors who could ever dream of capturing the clausterphobia of Kafka's writing - and although it is not a perfect vision - it is all the same a great piece of cinematic art.