Artivels Undescribable Perfection

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

fanan450 I must say , after 30 minutes from the beginning , I slept , and I continued watching it the next day just to know , why is this on the top rated movies !? and why this movie won an oscar award ! for what !? for the boring story !? or for the stupid music !? a total waste of time . I warn all of you . skip it !!.

MrJoe1987 It's amazing what music can do for a film. It can add intensity, capture emotion, or give a comical vibe. It can also annoy the (insert expletive) out of you, however, and if it is one thing that I have learned from watching The Third Man is that it can ruin a movie.The entire musical score of this movie is a single, borderline-infuriating piece of music (heard it before; don't know what it's called) that is played consistently, and is consistently out of place. It completely ruins the suspense of virtually every scene. It would have been better if they had absolutely no score, at all. It's that bad.This film would have been an 8/10, but the fact that music causes it to fail as a thriller means that I didn't enjoy it like I'm guessing I was intended to. I can't give it more than a 3/10.

maxtbuettner The Third Man is filled with great writing, acting, and directing, but the greatest aspect of the movie is the cinematography. Carol Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker did a fantastic job of depicting a post world war II Vienna. The deep shadows and large amount of dutch angles add to the mystery, uneasiness, and tension of the plot. Most film noir are filled with hard-boiled detectives and pessimistic tones. Reed replaces the detective with a writer trying to find out the truth about his friend's death. Most noir are filled with deep, slow jazz, but The Third Man's soundtrack is filled with upbeat guitar music. It seems out of place when it first plays but it only adds to the weird conspiracy of Orson Welles' death. While The Third Man is considered film noir I believe it stands out form the rest.

cinemajesty Film Review: "The Third Man" (1949) - A film produced under mystery and delayed secrecy concerning Actor/Director Orson Welles (1915-1985) traveling Europe before hitting set in season 1948/1949 to met fellow actor friend Joseph Cotton (1905-1994), performing as down-on-luck writer Holly Martins to investigate the fate of the black marketing character of believed-to-be-dead Harry Lime; together they delivered an iconic scene in motion picture history at the Prater in Vienna, which presents itself in post-war exterior setting condition, where cinematographer Robert Krasker opened up his skill-set of dutch camera angles, stark contrast lighting and precise dolly push-ins. Director Carol Reed (1906-1976) keeps his pressure on even under a tight production schedule and his gone-missing Hollywood Star to deliver a picture with film noir aesthetics without denying genre-twisting constant infusions of dark humorous beating inserts over struggling down-beat actress Alida Valli (1921-2006) with charming native-German speaking support actors, sharing language cross-over punchlines for highest revisiting motion picture entertainment, arguably the most accomplished film from the year 1949 of Academy Award contending pictures, which took the MPAA another year to recognize a deserved Oscar nominations for Direction, Cinematography and pitch perfect pacing Editorial job by Oswald Hafenrichter (1899-1973) in spite of denying the ground-breaking screenplay by Graham Greene (1904-1991) any further recognition as well as the simplistic musical score by Anton Karas (1906-1985), who elevates "The Third Man" even after 68 years of reviews to be one of the genre most innovative motion picture.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)