Gloria Reviews

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Sidney Lumet’s work, I was quite eager to check it out. After directing such great movies like ‘Before the Devil Knows You're Dead’, ‘Dog Day Afternoon’, ‘Serpico’ and ‘12 Angry Men’, you might wonder why the guy was never been really considered as one of the greatest masters and the reason why was probably that fact he spent half of his career making such rather dubious or even really lame pictures like this one. I mean, I think the whole thing must have had some potential. At least, since it was a remake from a movie directed by John Cassavetes, it must have been a decent story. I don’t know, even though there was nothing really wrong with this movie, eventually, I thought  it was just plain boring. I guess  Sharon Stone could be blamed here. Indeed, I keep watching movies with this actress and most of them are just very average and she most of the time provides a less than convincing performance. This flick was a good example. Anyway, to conclude, I have not seen the original version but I'm pretty sure this remake was completely unnecessary and it is not worth a look.