Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Paul Evans Best selling science fiction author David Norton is invited to a conference in a beautiful Mallorca hotel. David soon becomes aware that he's been dragged into something big and dangerous when people around him start committing suicide, including his fiancée, after receiving a strange phone call.The Kovac Box is a rather good movie, it's just a little forgettable, it could have been something rather good, it's just a little lacking in imagination and style, but on the whole it's a good mix of thriller and sci fi. The ending I found a little frustrating.Great music throughout, in keeping with the film, really lovely location filming, and well acted, Timothy Hutton puts in a very good and solid performance as Hutton. Also some interesting moments in the film which make you question what's going on. Overall still a worthy 7/10

Robert J. Maxwell It's a complicated plot. David Kelly, as Frank Kovak, is an ancient and brilliant scientist who has invented a kind of chip that can be implanted in an unsuspecting victim's neck. He's had this done more than a hundred times and all these unknowing subjects are walking around on Mallorca, the tourist mecca in Spain's Balearic Islands. The chips can be activated when the subject hears Billy Holiday singing "Gloomy Sunday." When they are activated, the subject commits suicide. Any attempt to tinker with the chips sets them off. De rigeur in these kinds of stories.This happens to the bride of David Norton (Timothy Hutton). She jumps from a hotel balcony and splashes. In fact, there is a rash of similarly motivated suicides on Mallorca and the despondent Hutton runs into another jumper (Lucia Jimenez) who survives only because her fall was broken by an awning.The two join forces and Hutton, a successful science fiction writer, finally tracks down the malefactor, Kelly, who nevertheless succeeds in prompting about a hundred people to leap to their deaths in The Caves of Hell on the island. Kelly is dying of a brain tumor and tries to blackmail Hutton into shooting him. He succeeds after threatening to reactivate Jimenez's chip so that she'll off herself successfully.It's a perplexing movie. A good deal of imagination has obviously gone into the plot, which hangs together nicely. Except, I suppose, once the conundrum is clarified, all the potential victims need to do is to make sure they're never in a position to listen to Billy Sunday again. (Jimenez, when hearing the tuneful trigger, manages to stay under water long enough to escape the consequences.) It's slow and there's little in the way of action but I rather liked it. Frank Kovac is the evildoer, of course, but he's so wizened and he sounds so sweet that it's difficult to categorize him as thoroughly evil. He is, after all, a sick and dying human being who is facing what remains of his bleak future with dignity and without complaint. It's so much better than casting some tattooed moron as the heavy.Timothy Hutton gives a subdued performance, projecting the presence of a man whose would-be wife has recently done a nose dive off a hotel balcony. Lucia Jimenez is there primarily to provide a threatened female. (She and Hutton both know she's sporting one of those chips in her neck.) She does a professional job, though, and she has sensual features and a nice figure, so we'll let her stay in the picture and be threatened. She does NOT wind up in bed with Hutton, or together with him on the departing airplane either, which is a blessing because the alternative is a terrible cliché.The spare musical score by Roque Banos is mysterioso -- somber and spooky. The director may need a little seasoning. The movie has no touches that anyone would consider out of the ordinary. Not that every film MUST be full of directorial razzle-dazzle. But let me give one example of what I mean.Hutton and Jimenez have discovered the secret to the rash of suicides and have come into possession of records that support their conclusion. They take them to the American embassy. The men on the other side of the desk do what these movies always require of them -- they don't believe a word of it. So how does the director handle this formulaic situation? Not like Hitchcock did in "The Man Who Knew Too Much", and not like Roman Polanski in "Frantic." Instead, after the evidence is presented, the Consul shakes his head and smirks while denying that it constitutes proof or, indeed, anything suggestive enough to be worth pursuing. It's as if Hutton and Jimenez were two nuts. The stereotypic template is followed down to the last millimeter.But you can easily get over these occasional directorial vacations -- the cross-cutting between the people about to leap to their doom and the car speeding to their rescue. The plot's the thing. And it's not bad.

Toadtoast If you have any reverence for the recordings of Billie Holiday, this film should strike you as outrageous in its exploitive use of her recording of 'Gloomy Sunday' as the triggering mechanism for mass suicide. But, truth to tell, I was absolutely enthralled by a pulp Science Fiction film that becomes more hilariously preposterous, scene by scene. Disjointed, illogical, derivative, boringly repetitive, here is a film that might have best been broken up into serial chapters and shown a chapter at a time, were it still the double feature / short subject 40s. Timothy Hutton plays the lead with complete command of all the nuances allowed to someone who operates out of the wooden Indian school of acting. This film should serve to nail the coffin lid securely down on the corpse of his cinematic acting career. The damsels in distress (there are two of them) are comely but always allowed to wander off and get into trouble, which necessitates rescue by our hero. There are those who have detected a Hitchcockian aroma wafting from this film, but that only brings into question Hitchcock's dubious and inflated reputation.

dean2900 I love the basic premise of this movie and it sounded like it could be good based on the plot, filming locations, and some decent actors.Unfortunately the movie fails at being creepy, scary, or even creating any form of tension. I get the feeling that the actors were just going through the motion.There is no chemistry between the two main characters, the Villain seems very weak, and there are no real surprised or twists.This movie seems like a toned down "In the Mouth of Madness" filmed in the Mediterranean.My best advice is to rent In The Mouth of Madness instead.Dean