Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

LeonLouisRicci There's more wordplay than usual in the final entry in the Series. For better or worse we are given Names that evoke chuckles and sighs. But the Characters personified are more of that specialized Tracy Comic-Strip charm.Boris Karloff is decidedly "Gruesome", carries the show and steals every Scene He appears. Although Skelton Knaggs as "X-Ray" can't be ignored with a sinister voice and coke-bottle glasses. Ralph Byrd as Tracy pretty much just reacts to things happening around. He is straight laced and squared jawed dutiful.The other returning characters show up and go through Their standard routines. Not as good as the first one in the Series but it is an above average B-Movie thanks to Karloff and a clever gimmick. Fast paced and fun.

tlm1215 I'd stumbled upon the entire Dick Tracy cartoon series on DVD while browsing the public library catalog -- aren't libraries great? -- and was pleasantly surprised to see these old live action Tracy movies on our shelves. (Alas, no Mumbles, Prune Face, Flat Top or Hemlock Holmes!) There was some lame acting, but, despite that, it actually wasn't too bad. The real attraction was Boris Karloff playing a toothpick-chomping hood! I wasn't expecting that, but it was totally worth the price of admission! :-D Had no idea he was as agile as he was, especially when you see him plodding through monster pictures. The scene in the morgue, the character names (Drs A. Tomic, L. E Thal and I. M. Learned), the punnery, and the action made it a nice 60-odd minute romp.

jmp8545 I tuned into this movie expecting a very badly done work, but I was pleasantly surprised. The first half hour is a real kick with more laughs than suspense. The remainder of the movie is more akin to what I expected. Boris Karloff was wonderful as "Gruesome" and kept the second half moving. I have to say that some of those guys were incredible shots with a tire shot out with one shot at about 100 yards and police officer killed "instantly" with a quick shot from a getaway car. Like the movie, the marksmanship declined markedly as the movie progressed. All in all, I recommend you watch it if you enjoy the old "B" movies. I plan to look for more in this series and see how they stack up.

sol1218 **SPOILERS** Having escaped from the joint Gruesome, Boris Karloff, meets his contact outside of prison Melody Fiske, Tony Barrett, at the seedy Hangman's Knot Bar to reactivate his criminal career that a stint in jail put on hold.It's almost by accident that Gruesome found out about Melody's partner in crime Dr. Lee Thal's, Edward Ashley, secret formula in freezing in place people for as much as 15 minutes. It's that formula, converted into a freeze bomb, that Gruesome uses the next day to rob the National Bank of some $200,000.00. This has Dick Tracy, Ralph Byrd, get on Gruesome's tail in that his girlfriend Tess Trueheart, Anne Gwynne, was the only witness by having herself locked in a phone booth, which made her immune to the freeze bomb, while the robbery was in progress.Tracy in trying to keep the lid on the Gruesome Gang robbery in order to put a stop to a run on the city banks has to put Gruesome and his gang out of commission before the pesky reporter Dan Sterne, Jim Noland, has the story of the freeze bomb printed in his newspaper. This has Tracy put his life on the line in working against the clock to apprehend Gruesome before he pulls off his next bank robbery using his mind as well as body numbing freeze bomb. Tracy goes so far in his trying to get Gruesome that he impersonates Melody who had since died in a car accident while being chased by the police. Something that will expose Tracy to the frightening freeze bomb twice not once in the movie. Not to mention the dangerous Gruesome himself who would like nothing better then to put Tracy out of action and out of his hair forever. We have in the movie's cast of characters Tracy's bumbling assistant plainclothesman Pat Patton, Lyle Latell, who's anything like his "Blood & Guts" namesake-Gen George Patton-in getting the job done. There's also in the cast nuclear physicist Dr. A.Tomic, Milton Parsons, whom we can assume the A-Bomb was named after together with Dr. Lee Thal skeletal-like skin and bones assistant X-Ray played by the apply named actor Skelton Knaggs! The last of the Dick Tracy movie series staring Ralph Byrd who three years later returned to play the famous comic-strip detective on TV only to die from a sudden heart-attack at age 43 on August 18, 1952 before the start of the series third season.