The Card Player

    The Card Player
    2004

    Synopsis

    Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John Brennan to find out the identity of the murderer.

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    Cast

    • Stefania RoccaAnna Mari
    • Liam CunninghamJohn Brennan
    • Silvio MuccinoRemo
    • Cosimo FuscoBerardelli
    • Fiore ArgentoLucia Marini
    • Adalberto Maria MerliPolice Commissioner
    • Claudio SantamariaCarlo Sturni
    • Mia BenedettaFrancesca
    • Giovanni VisentinC.I.D. Chief
    • Claudio MazzengaMario

    Recommendations

    • 70

      Village Voice

      Ingenious but relatively tame thriller.
    • 63

      New York Post

      Argento keeps the suspense level high while throwing in trademark cringe-inducing moments.
    • 60

      Variety

      Argento fans lusting for a classy slasher movie of the "Suspiria"/"Opera" variety are headed for a disappointing rendezvous with an old-fashioned police thriller, upgraded by serious actors in the main roles.
    • 50

      The New York Times

      The film unfolds as a tired, thoroughly conventional police procedural that might as well be titled "CSI: Roma."
    • 40

      Film Threat

      The movie sucks. It's beneath Argento to be making such drek after so long a career. He's better than this.
    • 30

      TV Guide Magazine

      This oddly flat serial-killer picture shows none of the baroque flair that characterizes the best of Italian horror filmmaker Dario Argento's work.

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