Redundant and unnecessary.

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Good movie but grossly overrated

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A Rome policewoman teams up with a British Interpol agent to find a crafty serial killer whom plays a taunting game of cat-and-mouse with the police by abducting and killing young women and showing it over an Internet web cam. Despite a good concept in it's hands IL Cartaio is a forgettable, boring and terrible film that is slow paced, the perfomances are below average and the end result is a waste of time. (0/10)

This is good Argento move with great camera work and decent script. The acting is good and this move have plenty of tension but no gore to speak for but thats not the problem. Good Argento move not one of his best but not his worst. The film is not great when we compare the likes of opera,phenomena,inferno,suspira or even trauma but it has its moments. Card player is a quiet creepy triler that ofers some best music score I ever heard of.There are some boring moments but that is typicole for Argento move.Argento didn't make a great move after Opera and I think sleepless and trauma are one great ones as well but card player is not to far to be as good as those two.

I would have given one out of ten but the idea for the film I thought was pretty good - so I gave it 2. I really couldn't see past the bad acting and dubbing - oh hell it is terrible. I'm still watching this film - I want to turn it off and watch something else but I also want to see how much worse this could get. Like I said; the story line idea is pretty good, the problem I have with it is that it was shown on the Horror channel so I recorded this thinking it would be a horror film. It's not, it's a thriller police chase thing. Which isn't the sort of thing I'm in to. If those are the types of films you like, and you can get past the terrible terrible acting and even worse dubbing, then by all means watch this film. If you are watching this thinking it will be a gruesome horror film; you are wrong, do not watch this film.

One of the the great things about giallo is the blood and nudity. The serial killer takes the time to undress his victim before tossing her in the water, so we get to see everything.A little Saw and a little "CSI"/"Criminal Minds"; this film features a new gimmick. We'll play cards for the life of a girl.As the game progresses, the killer ups the ante by capturing the Police Commissioner's daughter and forcing the police to play for her life.As the police close in on the Card Player, he manages to get Anna Mari in his clutches and forces her to play a game for her life. It was something of a silly ending.