Entertaining? Hell yes. Creepy, tense, depressing, tragic are just some of the things I felt watching this movie even after all these years.Technically any good? Technically brilliant. While the Janet Leigh character is virtually useless and contrived, literally everything else about the film is so rock solid, artistic, and well done that I simply don't care about one character being unbelievable. Everyone's good in the movie, too. It makes me wish Sinatra had concentrated only on his acting and that Harvey could have been in more American films.
How did I feel as the credits rolled? Pretty damn impressed. After all of these years, this movie is creepier than ever. Not only does it hold up, but it parallels life in the early 21st Century as well as it paralleled life in 1962. While certain aspects of it are dated (like Henry Silva's lame "Korean" accent and Sinatra and Leigh asking each other if they're Arabic--what does that mean, anyway??) generally, this movie holds up to the modern eye.
Final Rating? GSN (This is one of my top ten all time favorite films.)
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