Review of Tom

Tom (1973)
4/10
Hilariously awful
22 August 2023
One of the worst collections of tired cliches I've seen assembled into a feature film. Every scene is entirely predictable, and squeezed hard to wring some sort of meaning or intensity out of it. Which is kind of a lost cause, since most of the flat, one dimensional "acting" is about what you'd expect from a local car dealer TV commercial.

With that in mind, it's not without its (unintentional) charms. There are enough "so bad it's good" moments to make this stinking old pile of leftover glop worth watching strictly for laughs. And the shockingly bad theme song is so ridiculously inappropriate and racist that it's hard to believe that anyone ever thought that it was a good idea.

One star as a serious movie, but six stars as an unintentional comedy. I'll split the difference and give it four stars out of ten.
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