maybe i be miss something because i have read more positive thing about the man who cheat himself than i have read bad review and i just do not get it . i like my noirs to have a little style to them with character that speak and look and and act like humphrey bogart in the big sleep or gene tierney in laura . none of the character in this movie have that style or presence or whatever you want to call it . take the lead actor and lee j. cobb . his rumpled and roll out of bed look be about as far from the dashing and smooth talk noir archetype a you will find . or and take jane wyatt a the femme fatale a another example . this be one of the bad case of miscast i have see in a while . she just not convince in the role . a for the plot and it tire and lack any real surprise or anything new for the genre . i could have predict the outcome of the man who cheat himself after about five minute . and that final cat and mouse chase scene be plain old dull . ten to fifteen minute of nothing happen really ruin any pace the movie may have have go for it .