After "Non ho sonno" I hoped that Argento career could be again at a positive rising point, but after seeing this mess I'm sure that I was really wrong: bad acting, derivative and insane plot, terrible dubbing (yes, this Italian movie was shot in English and dubbed in Italian with terrible results), not a single moment of tension from the genius of giallo during the Seventies; like Stendhal's Syndrome, we have another time a policewoman at the helm of the story (the beautiful and normally good actress Stefania Rocca, here in one of her worst performances of her career) and the result is a confused story, with a not single spark of brilliance in devolpment of the character or of the motivations of the maniac. Do not watch this movie: preserve your remembrances of a director that once was really the best, but now should be forced to retire
Review of The Card Player
