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The Real Story of...: American Sniper (2016)
**Raspberry**
Character assassination of a good, brave man... Go have fun with yourself.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Four O'Clock (1986)
Suspenseful !
McMillian's Judge Magrew is a thoroughly despicable bastard in this story to say the very least.
Corrupt and just plain nasty in his job and insanely jealous in his personal life, he believes his wife is having an affair with a younger man so he plans to kill them both by using a bomb device he confiscated from an arsonist who faced him in court.
All is going to plan when he is knocked out by two burglars who then leave him bound to a chair and gagged in the basement facing the bomb he left on a work bench. He wakes up too late to warn the two robbers ( not that it would be much use with his mouth firmly taped up ) and he's forced to watch the clock tick down to the appointed time when it would go off.
He desperately tries to free himself, but the ropes are well tied and he can only make small muffled noises through the gag.
His wife arrives home with the younger man and he uselessly tries calling out to get their attention ( you have to suspend some disbelief as he can clearly hear their conversation yet he can't " mmmfff " or grunt loud enough for them to hear him ).
All in all, a very well done remake of the 1940s radio play and 1950s Hitchcock TV episode.
Suspicion: Four O'Clock (1957)
4.5 out of 5 Stars
A masterclass effort of suspense from one of the best in the business.
Everything works in this story, although the viewer needs to suspend some disbelief when Steppe's wife arrives home accompanied by the guy he's suspected she was having an affair with.
Although he can clearly hear their quiet conversation, he in turn is unable to make them hear his cries for help through his gag.
If it was me in that predicament, I'd be making more than enough noise than a brass band on speed and Red Bull !