Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

gridoon2018 Oliver Stone's second movie was this classy, big-studio, high-budget horror movie which has a memorable, extremely well-done "freak accident" scene and great special effects by Carlo Rambaldi, but plods along too slowly, especially considering that the central big "twist" becomes obvious quickly (if you think you've guessed what's happening right from the first murder....you're probably right). Michael Caine (who claims he did this movie only to pay for his new garage!) has some intense acting moments, but at other times he seems to be trying to stifle his laughter at his own dialogue! Nevertheless, this would make a compatible double bill with his other bizarre shocker from the early 1980s, "The Island". ** out of 4.

Claudio Carvalho The comic book writer and cartoonist Jonathan "Jon" Lansdale (Michael Caine) is the creator of the successful hero "Mandro" and lives with his wife Anne Lansdale (Andrea Marcovicci) and their daughter Lizzie in the countryside. Anne wants to move to New York and has an argument with Jon while driving on the road. She distracts with an impatient driver and has a car accident with a truck where Jon loses his right hand. The hand is not found and Jon needs to use prosthesis. They move to New York and his editor Karen Wagner (Rosemary Murphy) offers another cartoonist to proceed with "Mandro". However Jon is not happy with the modifications introduced in his character by the new cartoonist and Karen let him go.Without money, Jon moves to California to teach in a college while Anne and Lizzie stay in New York for a few more months. Jon has a love affair with his student Stella Roche (Annie McEnroe) and he feels attracted by her. However when his colleague Brian Ferguson (Bruce McGill) tells that Stella is an easy woman, Jon does not want to see her. However, his severed hand kills Stella and when Brian tells that he is going to the police to report that Stella is missing, his hand also kills him. Meanwhile Anne and Lizzie come to his house to spend Christmas with him. Soon he learns that Anne is betraying him and that she intends to go to Los Angeles with Lizzie. Out of the blue, his hand tries to strangle Anne and Jon follows it. Is it possible that the hand does exist to kill whoever anger him?"The Hand" is an early film directed by Oliver Stone with a creepy story. The plot is developed in slow pace and the mystery remains until the last scene when the viewer finally understands what happened. Michael Caine has a great performance as usual and the movie is intriguing and engaging. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "A Mão" ("The Hand")

Theo Robertson Comic book artist Jon Lansdale is involved in a car accident where he loses his right hand . Trying to adjust to life without his hand Lansdale becomes more and more obsessed and feels he is descending in to insanity and feels he's being stalked by his severed hand . Is this delusion or has his severed hand taken on a life of its own ? This is an early directorial effort from Oliver Stone . The fact that Stone constantly states that SALVADOR was his directorial debut should tell you something about THE HAND . It should also be pointed out that that Stone's first preference for Lansdale was Jon Voight , then Dustin Hoffman then Christopher Walken then finally Michael Caine who in this part of his career was in total slumming it for the money mode and apparently did the film to pay for his new garage . It's very noticeable in the early part of the film Caine hasn't bothered to learn his lines and is obviously reading from cue cards . Caine's performance does improve later in the film but there's no way it could have got any worse than his early scenes The other flaw with the film is its pompous dead pan tone . This is THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS territory a film that is something of a camp classic and camp is not an adjective you can use to describe THE HAND . It constantly touches upon serious themes such as disability , insanity and marital pressure and these themes contrast badly with a premise that is rather daft and everyone associated with the movie has been better prior and after THE HAND

cherbo Not a lot of people feel this, but the way films are made have changed since the beginning of the millennium. From blocking, cinematography, film stock, writing, pacing, everything is different. So it's really refreshing to watch michael caine do his thing in this oliver stone horrorfest. What might have been over the top campy shtick in the 80s becomes infinitely watchable.I agree about the similarities to the shining but doesn't quite match up. The comments about the burning car i don't agree with. It's inserted to show michael caine getting unhinged the more he suspects he's got a pet killer hand out there.A great movie to check out. Really fun.