Right, well, where to begin?
I sat down in 2021 to watch the 1981 movie "Sphinx" from writer John Byrum and director Franklin J. Schaffner without ever having heard about the movie before now as I sat down to watch it.
And given the fact that the movie was set in Egypt and was titled "Sphinx", I must admit that I was expecting a bit more focus on the Egyptian lore and history, but instead found myself in for a very, very boring murder mystery of sorts.
Needless to say that the fact that the movie also had Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella and John Rhys-Davies on the cast list helped win me over. But it seemed that not even they could manage to do much with the inferior and inadequate script and storyline they had to work with.
I gave up on "Sphinx" shortly after having suffered through a bit more than one hour of virtually nothing interesting happening. I wanted to give the movie a fair chance and I wanted to enjoy it. But I just couldn't. This movie was definitely not my cup of tea. It was incredibly slow paced, uneventful and just downright uninteresting and unappealing.
My rating of the 1981 movie "Sphinx" lands on a mere two out of ten stars. This movie was nothing near what I had hoped or expected from it. And it definitely wasn't a movie that entertained me in any way. And I can honestly say that I am not returning to watch the remaining half hour of movie that I skipped on; I just simply don't care about the storyline - or lack thereof, rather.
I sat down in 2021 to watch the 1981 movie "Sphinx" from writer John Byrum and director Franklin J. Schaffner without ever having heard about the movie before now as I sat down to watch it.
And given the fact that the movie was set in Egypt and was titled "Sphinx", I must admit that I was expecting a bit more focus on the Egyptian lore and history, but instead found myself in for a very, very boring murder mystery of sorts.
Needless to say that the fact that the movie also had Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella and John Rhys-Davies on the cast list helped win me over. But it seemed that not even they could manage to do much with the inferior and inadequate script and storyline they had to work with.
I gave up on "Sphinx" shortly after having suffered through a bit more than one hour of virtually nothing interesting happening. I wanted to give the movie a fair chance and I wanted to enjoy it. But I just couldn't. This movie was definitely not my cup of tea. It was incredibly slow paced, uneventful and just downright uninteresting and unappealing.
My rating of the 1981 movie "Sphinx" lands on a mere two out of ten stars. This movie was nothing near what I had hoped or expected from it. And it definitely wasn't a movie that entertained me in any way. And I can honestly say that I am not returning to watch the remaining half hour of movie that I skipped on; I just simply don't care about the storyline - or lack thereof, rather.