I'm with the majority of my fellow IMDBers below who regard this honored Fritz Lang crime drama as visually arresting (no pun intended) but pretty darn thin in the story and character depts. Also not helping matters is an unusually non compelling Henry Fonda performance. He's both too passive and then, in the prison getaway scenes, as if to overcompensate, too over the Cagney top. However, as to Sylvia Sydney there are no two opinions. This gal should not have had to wait until her sixties to nab an Oscar nomination. Give it a B minus.
Review of You Only Live Once
