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Title: Interesting Horror Premise, But Moves Astonishingly Slowly
Review: The Tenant is a film that wastes time and loses viewers. Long stretches of time where nothing happens, something quickly happens, then we are back to the monotonous pace - excruciating to watch. Never have I checked and checked to see how much of a film was left.The story sounds really good and gripping - tenant moves into the apartment of a woman who committed suicide. He feels something is going on with the building, the manager, and the other tenants. Slowly, he begins to identify with the dead girl. But the pace is so slow. The main character, played by Roman Polanski, is so boring and unsympathetic that you wish he would just jump out of the window and get it over with. He has a beautiful girl interested in him - why?The end - which I won't reveal - is absurd instead of unsettling, mainly because of the duration of time it took to get to that point.
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