Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Retired508 From the beginning, the plot, character development and suspense are first rate. In fact, the movie goes very well in every respect, except that the whole movie turns on the remembrance of Mark on the witness stand at the end of the movie And even this is acceptable except for the fatal flaw: Mark gives absolutely no explanation as just why he switches jackets with the man he just beat up.As a matter of fact, if the reason was to pretend that, when found,the body would be that of a British Major and not his own, why in the world wold he put on a jacket which was probably spotted with blood, hardly the action of a sane man. Try as I might, I cannot think of a reason for the switch, and even the prosecutor fails to ask the reason for this action. Without a satisfactory answer to this question, the entire testimony is worthless.After all, it is in this jacket that the trinket that his wife gave him is discovered which then causes to prime witness against him to recant his testimony, and thus proves his innocence.

vincentlynch-moonoi Amnesia is a film topic that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Here it works fairly well as we see the story of a Brit who -- after WWII -- has forgotten patches of his life, particularly the part of his life when he and several others escaped from a POW camp. Is he who he says he is, or is a look-alike who killed the real person? A lot of the film takes place in a British courtroom, and while it is not as enthralling a courtroom drama as say "Witness For The Proscecution", it still does nicely, although there times that the film drags just a bit.Dirk Bogarde was an actor whom I pretty much ignored over the years, although lately I've taken a new look at him. He really was quite good...and is here in a dual role. On balance, it's his film. But Olivia De Havilland has a good role as the wife, though more of her really good scenes come fairly late in the film. She certainly was attractive here. I can't quite make up my mind about Paul Massie as the soldier who questions who is the real character. Robert Morley is good as one of the attorneys, although Wilfrid Hyde White, as the other attorney, is a bit more entertaining.A great film? No. But pretty decent. It won't end up on my DVD shelf, but I'm glad to have seen it.

ttintagel This film seems to be based on the true story of Martin Guerre, the sixteenth century Frenchman who went off to war and came back a changed man. Some of these changes turned out to be so great that his neighbors suspected it wasn't really Martin. It turned out they were right; it was an impostor, Arnaud du Tilh, so clever he even fooled Martin's wife. The real Martin eventually showed up and Arnaud confessed his crime. IN 192 the story was made into a film starring Gerard Depardieu as Arnaud. American audiences will be more familiar with Sommersby (1993), an adaptation of the same story starring Jodie Foster and Richard Gere, set after the American Civil War.

darp1964 The acting in this film was superb and the storyline kept me interested. A must see if your into classic movies. I loved this movie. I'd really like to see it sold on video/DVD, it would be a great addition to my classic's collection.