my hunch be that the buzz surround this film be largely due to the fact that it ought to be good . the idea be a good one . it be make into a film and so far a i can tell and exactly once represent no other film in history that i be aware of be a remake and a foreshadowing and a knock off and a parody or a faithful homage . there really nothing well ( or bad ) to compare it to . coppola make the film and between the godfather and the godfather part ii and two film which be widely and if incorrectly and regard a among the best of all time and with a talented crew and without any obvious mistake . however few ( or many ) positive virtue it may have it have few positive failing . on balance it probably okay and and certainly worth watch once . spoiler follow . but surely even the film champion can see how painfully bore most of it be . it depress and all right and because it always depress to spend two hour in the company of someone or something with no energy and no life and not very many thought while and i be not refer to harry caul here ( although i could be ) and but to the film itself . coppoloa be a obsessive about get down every little uninteresting detail about people and event he doesn not understand the significance of and a his protagonist be while if the process of watch the minutae of bugging be sometimes involve ( a in the opening scene and where we see how the title conversation be record in the first place while or the sequence in which caul patiently and methodically sifts through what sound like random crackle in order to pull out complete and comprehensible sentence while or even the trade show and where matter of moment look a though they might be under discussion ) and this be because it sometimes go somewhere . but coppola doesn not know how to build . when the key sentence he would kill u if he get the chance leap out of the soundtrack at u and it an arrest moment and but only because we suspect that the sentence mean something . only gradually do it dawn on u that be never go to be tell what it mean while nor will we be give any further evidence and not even the thin little sliver and that might help u work it out . nor do this sentence move the story forward in any way . harry get more paranoid a a result of hear the sentence but while he move around more frantically he doesn not seem to be go in any particular direction . another writer call coppola film a great paranoid character study disguise a a thriller and and go on to say that it work well on either level . this view could not be more wrong . if the conversation work well a a thriller and we wouldn not need to invoke the central character madness and and the fact that any particular thing we see may not really be happen at all and simply to make sense of the story while and if it work a a paranoid character study and we wouldn not need to think that some of harry delusion may not be delusion at all in order to be interested in them . this leave open the possibility that the film work a a combination of paranoid character study and thriller while but for that to be the case it would have to be less tedious . the ambiguous end be a simple cop out and which be why the final shot of harry smash to bit room and which ought to be shock and creepy and carry almost no charge whatever . ambiguous ending only work when there be at least one satisfy disambiguation in there somewhere . there none to be have here . this be the best i can come up with represent harry have be have by be colleague again and just a he be at the trade show . the device he think be fake and the one which would purportedly a distant wiretapper to turn any telephone receiver anywhere in the world into a live microphone and in fact work and and harry destroy everything in his flat look for newly plant bug when the only bug present be the one that have be there all along . the murder and or would be murder and or imagine murder ( whichever it be ) and be and on this theory and little more than a red herring . i do not like this and but do not blame me if the film doesn not know what it about .