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- 1983
- R
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 1 h 41 m
- 1983
- R
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 1 h 41 m
Summary A LAPD detective is on the trail of a very handsome young man who had been seducing and slashing many young women to death.
Directed By: J. Lee Thompson
Written By: William Roberts, J. Lee Thompson
- 1983
- R
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 1 h 41 m
- 1983
- R
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 1 h 41 m
10 to Midnight
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Summary A LAPD detective is on the trail of a very handsome young man who had been seducing and slashing many young women to death.
Directed By: J. Lee Thompson
Written By: William Roberts, J. Lee Thompson
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
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83% Negative
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
12
17% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
83% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
William Roberts’ screenplay, while it sags in the middle, is damnably clever at dropping in its vicious vigilante theme without being didactic, and J. Lee Thompson’s direction, borrowing from Hitchcock’s editing in Psycho, creates the full horror of blades thrusting into naked bellies without the viewer ever actually seeing it happen.
The movie 10 to Midnight gives you two genres for the price of one. You get the reactionary vigilantism of Death Wish combined with the slice 'n' dice misogyny of low-grade horror films, the kind in which virginal female bodies are systematically bared to allow unobstructed ingress to knives and other instruments of brutality. All that and Charles Bronson, too: a weirdo jackpot. [15 Mar 1983]
The suspense generated in this most cheaply sensational recounting set in Los Angeles is episodic, rising at the time of the kill and receding into boredom at other times. The actors, directed by J. Lee Thompson, seem a reasonably competent crew, although in this raunchy, bloodstained, moralizing account there is not much opportunity to demonstrate. [13 Mar 1983, p.62]
Apart from Bronson, this is a complete waste.
The final scene is so foul that even ya-hoos have trouble mustering much applause; it's the kind of film that makes you feel dirty. As for Bronson, whose box-office appeal has faded as the viciousness of his films has increased, Ten to Midnight is a kind of milestone: It's time to write him off. [22 Mar 1983, p.B5]
This movie indicates that Charles Bronson just doesn't care any more, and is just going through the motions for the money. I admired his strong, simple talent once. What is he doing in a garbage disposal like this?
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