I think I just saw two movies in one. The beginning pulled me in, Ruth Roman shows a nice soft-yet-spunky ingénue side here, a little different from some of her other work, where she seems more hard-edged. However, the last 15-20 minutes were unbelievable! I thought I was watching a silent movie "mit sound" with all the double-takes and over-reactions. Some early talkies were like this, before it was learned that less gesticulating etal generally worked better when live dialog was available. I'd recommend watching this movie once, the first part for enjoyment, the last part being an amazed amusement of 'how far can they go?!' One could even watch it twice, to try to discover at exactly what point it all went terribly, but humorously wrong.
Review of Lightning Strikes Twice
