Reply #18: That's actually a really GOOD film

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I rented it about 15 years ago because I thought it would be awful in a campy way. But it turned out to be gripping and exciting with a script full of witty double-entendres. It's now a bonafide cult classic, and I've even heard a scary rumor that Quentin Tarantino may direct a remake of it. I kneel and pray every day that someone will stop him from doing that. The original is fine just as it is, like the original Psycho is. Some of the acting is amateurish but some of the actors are excellent. It's the best action film I've seen - surpassing in quality quite a few $100 million budget Hollywood action films.