The Card Player(Il cartaio)

Name: The Card Player
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Italy · 2004
1h 43m
Director Dario Argento
Starring Stefania Rocca, Liam Cunningham, Silvio Muccino, Cosimo Fusco
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller

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

The New York Times by Dave Kehr

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

Variety by Deborah Young

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.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

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

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

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