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Passion

(2013)

I had high hopes for this because it was directed by Brian De Palma, who is sometimes very good, and stars Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams, who are both very good. And it does go along well for quite a while, and then it tries too hard to have twists and surprises in the manner of Hitchcock, who De Palma has always emulated. But it eventually got to be Too Damn Much, and not believable. No real point in trying to outline the twisty plot. It just didn’t work.