What a waste of my time!!!

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

What a convoluted little noir thriller: enjoyable and very stylish, but with a plot that takes a few far-fetched twists and turns, leaving the viewer with more than a few questions.Lynn Bari stars as wealthy widow Christine who, two years after the death of her husband Paul (Donald Curtis), is now courting lawyer Martin (Richard Carlson), although she still cannot put her feelings for her dead spouse behind her. On the beach below her clifftop house, Christine encounters Alexis (Turhan Bey), a spiritualist who displays an uncanny knowledge of her life, right down to the details of her husband's demise. Intrigued, Christine begins paying Alexis visits at his home, unaware that the man is a con artist, having gained his information from his partner in crime, Emily (Emily), a servant at Christine's house.Disturbed by Christine's behaviour, her younger sister Janet (Cathy O'Donnell) and Martin decide to investigate the psychic shyster, hiring a private detective in the hope of exposing Alexis as a con artist. Things get even more complicated when Paul appears during a seance, convincing Christine that his spirit is reaching out to her. In reality, Paul is very much alive, having faked his death (leading one to ask exactly where he has been hiding for the past two years), and now wants to get his hands on Christine's fortune.Exactly how some of the haunting hallucinations that plague Christine are achieved is left extremely vague (I'm still not sure how the spooky dress managed to follow Christine around her room), and Paul's timely arrival takes a little swallowing, but the haunting atmosphere, brisk pace, wonderful black and white cinematography (that makes great use of shadow and light), and some inventive use of camera angles (we get a shot from underneath a glass topped table and one from behind the taps of a sink) all go to make The Amazing Mr. X an entertaining and engaging mystery for the duration.

A rich widow meets a dark stranger on the beach after she hears her name being called by her late husband, and is pulled into a con-trick. But who's being conned? This starts out as an over-dialogued ghostly melodrama, but develops okay into a mystery-thriller and delivers a solid twist. So it's worth bearing with, but the initial pace really plods along and the lighting and visual clichés are just too dull. I saw a bad youtube copy, so don't want to be too harsh. Some of the effects are interesting if not convincing, and the music is the usual constant romantic background manipulation.The acting is fine, but the story doesn't inspire, and although there are noir touches it's not a patch on Chandler.Overall, won't be watching again.

Hypnosis noir (or spiritualist noir) arrives at the heart of noir; staged image, desire amplified at the hands of some illusionist, belief creating a story. The silent Dr. Mabuse, the oldest noir progenitor I have found, is about a criminal mastermind who in controlling the illusion of appearances creates the crime narrative we try to apprehend him in. Exciting as all get out.Here, two beautiful sisters, heiresses to a fortune, fall under the spell of a 'psychic consultant', a spiritualist who manipulates their yearnings for money. Mabuse-like, he controls his appearance, his house a large staging area rigged with devices for illusion. Not very interesting because the same token that brings a hypnosis noir close to the heart of things ultimately substitutes the intuitive dreaming with explanations about how sleep works.The opening scene is pretty tantalizing though. That is the first moment where illusion emerges in the noir world. What is it? The woman is in her house, a marvelous mansion on a cliff overlooking a moonlit beach, and thinking she has heard the voice of her dead (but still loved) husband she goes to the veranda, but of course there's nothing there but the tumultuous sea below. So the illusory urge was already present from the start, it creates everything else, and is as simple as this, a voice coming in from an open window. Nice. It could be the start to a ghost movie, where again it's all about haunted spaces of memory. The Uninvited strikes this balance, another quasi-noir. What makes this a noir is that moments later the woman goes for a walk and the illusionist materializes as if from the night to answer the need for magical dreaming. A crucial turning point later on is a seance that turns real; shifting us from her ethereal dreaming to constructed sleep. In great noir, we have imperceptible shifts so that we dream.

well I don't know where to start,, first off I couldn't follow the movie at all okay a woman thinks she hears her dead husband by the ocean,, I have no problems with that,, what I don't get at all is the fortune telling stuff, and where he thinks that he get's all of this supposed power over people,, second the movie just went In to many directions,, and very slowly,, at one point I actually couldn't wait for the movie to be over with,, I usually don't give a movie this bad of a rating,, but when I really don't understand what the heck i'm watching, and can't follow along it really doesn't seem to make much sense,, out of all the movies iv'e seen in the wal mart 50 pack this one was by far and above the most hideous of them all,, would not recommend to anyone.