My Wife and My Dead Wife

If only I could give negative stars...
To compare this film to Hitchcock is like comparing Jennifer Aniston's acting skills to Meryl Streep's, although Jennifer's acting is much better than the actors in this film. There went an hour and 22 minutes of my life I can never get back...

So bad.
To say this low-budget film is similar to Hitchcock's work is an insult to the master director. Watch it and form your own opinion, but prepare to be disappointed.

DEAD ON ARRIVAL
I had high expectations for MY WIFE AND MY DEAD WIFE, especially after reading some of the reviews. Now, I don't know what movie they saw, because this film wasn't worthy of five stars or four or even three. The best I can say was the DVD packaging was impressive. The artwork was eerie and colorful and had absolutely nothing to do with the plot. That was the good point. The disc itself was bad, it had no menu and when you tried to access it, the disc did funky things that made me think my DVD player was about to give up the ghost (yes, a bad pun). No chapter selections, no captions. It plays straight through. For the expensive price, they should've at least had a menu to access.

Then, there was the acting. It was terrible. The lead actor was horribly miscast. He was wooden and seemed to walk through his lines. I couldn't picture him lost in passion for anyone and that was a major point of the story, what little there was of it. The plot was never really fleshed out. Couple...

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