To me, this movie is perfection.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Perhaps I should have researched this film before purchasing it because it took a while ago understand the plot. Part of a series of films, this appears to be a combination of crime film, espionage thriller and psychological horror. It focuses on a mad doctor, being held in an institution and the impact that his genius has through possible assumed mind control. Dubbed from German into English, this features actors familiar to American audiences, and you may find yourself laughing at the sight and sounds of "Hogan's Heroes" veteran Leon Askin being dubbed with a voice white different than his own. Gert Frobe, best known to me as the comically evil Baron from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", is unrecognizable to me in the title role, but it has Bern many years since I've seen his most famous role, Goldfinger. The fact that this doesn't seem to fall into one genre of film makes it a major curiosity, but there are a few scenes which gave me pause for thought. I really wished that I had seem the previous entry. I mention this for the benefit of anybody who gets this first. Artistically, this is superb, reminding me of early German expressionism and the French new wave which lead to American film noir. The conclusion seems to have been influenced by "The Lady From Shanghai", making me wonder how Orson Welles might have fit into this. I know that I will re-visit this after seeing its predecessor(s).

This movie is not bad but it's a too simple entry in the Dr. Mabuse movie franchise.It's part of the long running Dr. Mabuse franchise and a remake of the 1933 movie with the same title, directed by Fritz Lang. It's a bit weird that they decided to do a remake this time, as if they ran out of original ideas of its own. But then again, can you really call this a remake? It changed quite a lot, including the characters. It doesn't have an awful lot to do plot-wise with the 1933 movie and only a few sequences are similar. It also almost exactly copies the car chase in the finale of the movie but it of course can't beat the brilliant original.The movie is not really mysterious since it show Dr. Mabuse and his intentions pretty early on in the movie. In the original version it was still kept a mystery for long that Dr. Mabuse was still alive and that he still was just as much in control as always. This movie chooses a far more simplified approach of things.The movie is instead now often more silly than really tense or mysterious. It has some certain clumsiness's and silliness's in it, which makes the movie feel far more outdated than its 1962 year of production would normally suggest it is. And even though it's not a slow or boring movie, it just isn't a very exciting one either really.At least a real positive thing was that Gert Fröbe returned again in his role as Kriminalkommissar Lohmann. The same role he had played before in "Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse". And what he great actor he was! Also Wolfgang Preiss reprises his role of Dr. Mabuse once more, for the fourth time already. Luckily his role in this movie is much larger again and he is better than ever before in this movie.It's OK to watch, if you also liked the previous Dr. Mabuse movies.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

This movie is so silly, you've got to love it. The way the actors keep a straight face to the nonsense their up to is absolutely delightful.There are countless great scenes to witness. My favorite one: When Inspector Lohmann studies Mabuses "secret" plans he's informed that a bank has been robbed. Immediately he pulls out the master-plan out of a heap of shabby looking pages. The "plan" is shown briefly. Do yourself a favor and push the stop-button there. You'll see some badly drawn figures, a few stars and the words "unternehmen stadbank" (operation city-bank?). That's the plan of a mastermind of crime! Watch the scene when informer "Locke" is chased by his gang. It's a very bad copy of the chase-scene in the beginning of the original version. It's good proof how good Fritz Lang actually was.

The 3rd Dr. Mabuse with the team Wolfgang Preiss + Gert Fröbe is added here with C. Reigner. Meanwhile the 'Dr. Mabuse' had become well known in other continents, too. I think this movie is more finicky and tricky, than the others, but still tentious and good. So I recommend it.