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An utter hack. Couldn't direct traffic.

A pretty hit and miss career some flashes of brilliance, but not enough to rate as great. He has churned out Hollywood formula hits (The Untouchables), great revisionist genre peices (Dressed To Kill) and occasionally a wildly original work (Greetings, Phantom of the Paradise).

He's made some really good films e.g. 'Blow out', 'Carrie', 'The Untouchables','Mission impossible (well, I liked it) and 'Carlito's way. But he's also made some that leave a very nasty taste in the mouth like 'Scarface', 'The fury' and 'Dressed to kill'. Then there are some real turkeys like 'Bonfire of teh vanities'and 'Mission to Mars.

Dreadful, derivative director of dreadful, derivative, tasteless, noisy and not-too-scary "thrillers." "Mission Impossible" was a crappy retread of a crappy TV series: any director who would undertake such a suspect enterprise has to be a hack. "Carrie" was such an over-the-top and totally absurd concept (like most of the works of that really lame Stephen King) that the only saving grace of the film was all the nubile skin you got to see in the lockerroom scenes. "Scarface" was one of the worst remakes ever, starring one of the worst actors ever to appear on screen, that sawed-off, loud and filthy mouthed A. Pacino (yecch!!!). "Blow Out" was cinematic toilet paper. "Dressed to Kill" was about as suspenseful as reading the Yellow Pages. I would consider this guy to be the worst of the directors currently working, but considering how crappy so many of these dolts are, it's hard to put such sub-mediocrity into perspective.

Who does this guy have to kill to get some respect?

He's at his best when he's not imitating Hitchcock, which he just can't pull off and it ends up looking like a rip-off.