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Originally Posted by nosferatu42 
The Card player was a decent detective film but nothing more, it didn't feel like an Argento film to me.
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It is a good crime thriller rather than an Argento classic. However when you've been making films for 34 years what new can be achieved that he hadn't done before? Had he copied other films he'd have been seen as derivative. Thinking
Trauma here for one.
He's a bit limited in what he can achieve on meagre Italian budgets to make films which seem to have tens of producers in a clamour to generate some needed cash as he never really got the Hollywood break he deserved. See Romero as an example of another director in the same boat.
His other workaround that time - mid 2000's - was also less Argento than what had come before such as his two excellent
Masters of Horror episodes
Jenifer and
Pelts.
Obviously then there's the film i reviewed which is clearly a Hitchcock homage with some Argento blood thrown in.