Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

MJB784 I love Billy Wilder, James Cagney and screwball comedies. One of my favorite movies is, I think, the definitive comedy of them all: Bringing Up Baby because every joke builds the next scene. I was looking forward to this because it seemed to be in the tradition of Bringing Up Baby in it's insanity. Yet, I didn't find it that insane or funny. The pacing seemed slow, I don't understand what was so funny about the daughter marrying a communist or the secretary that keeps clicking his heels, or any of the other elements in this movie. What was the joke?

gavin6942 Comedy about Coca-Cola's man (James Cagney) in West Berlin, who may be fired if he can't keep his American boss's daughter from marrying a Communist.This is Billy Wilder's finest work, and considering that I think pretty much everything he touches is gold, this is high praise. The humor, the action, this is just a great film from beginning to end. Cagney apparently hated working on this one, but I would also say it is one of his best roles, as well.What strikes me is the use of puns and fast-paced action (not quite slapstick, but close). Some jokes are hard to catch because they go so fast, and many are just downright clever. I was hooked as soon as they let loose with the ten-foot pole joke. I did not know they even made movies like this since the Marx Brothers stopped, and I cannot say they have done anything like this ever again.

andrew-t-herbert The film one two three is about post World War II Germany under the different occupying countries. The film is very funny and you can understand why some of the occupying countries are ridiculed. Wilder is from Germany but went America during the war. The Russians are portrayed as rough men that like to eat caviar and drink alcohol. The Russian side of Germany is still in rubbles. I believe that while in America Wilder became custom to the American ways and this is way he portrays the other occupying countries as less inferior. During the film, MacNamara drives across the lines to East Berlin, you can see how he is able to bribe the security at the gates and that the East side has not been repaired. Wilder is trying to show how the West Berlin is better. West Berlin looks like a typical American city. The first thing that you will notice is the Coca Cola Company is headquartered in West Berlin. Coke is a well-known American icon. Wilder wants the audience to think that the West is America and is better than the other zones. The movie is very fast paced. Everything is about time and not having enough. I believe that the movie is fast paced to show tow things. The first is to show coca-colonization, to show how quickly the coke company was moving its product around the world. The second reason is to show what Germany was going through at this time. The country was divided into four zones and everyone was in dispute of the Berlin wall. The country was trying to re-identify itself after two World Wars. Germany had been proved to be wrong again. I think that the film was very funny and did a great job portraying the times that people were going through in Germany.

princebansal1982 I am a big fan of screwball comedies from 30's and 40's and somehow they always seem fresh. However movies like One, Two, Three seem to be really dated. All the jokes fall flat.I did like the movie in the start but it just went downhill. Nearly everybody in the movie is a stereotype. There is a blond dumb secretary, unscrupulous capitalist manager who sleeps with every secretary, wife who tolerates cheating, idealistic communist young guy and unscrupulous communist guys who will risk anything for a beautiful blond. I understand that this is a recipe for a good farce, but everything feels artificial and I didn't laugh once during the whole movie. And I laugh a lot during funny movies.I can see that it may have been funny when it was released but that is not the case now. By the way I have loved older comedies by Lubitsch, Hawks and Sturges which are still very funny.This movie falls in middle, not good enough to recommend to anybody but not so bad that I fret over time wasted in watching the film.