Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 100
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 59
The belabored noir plotting feels unbelievable, thus removing any sense of suspense. Also, Lohman is badly miscast.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 19
The belabored noir plotting feels unbelievable, thus removing any sense of suspense. Also, Lohman is badly miscast.
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A reporter unexpectedly gets a personal perspective on a legendary show-business story in this adaptation of Rupert Holmes' novel, scripted and directed by noted Canadian independent filmmaker Atom Egoyan. In the mid-'50s, Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) were a wildly popular comedy team who suddenly and unexpectedly broke up at the peak of their popularity. Fifteen years after Morris and Collins called it quits, journalist Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman), who has
Oct 28, 2005 Wide
Feb 28, 2006
$0.8M
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The solution to the 'mystery' ... becomes anticlimactic.
Egoyan simply offers too much in terms of twists and trysts.
A mystery-inside- a-mystery that mostly just drives around in search of a nonexistent address and hits dead ends.
Every face on screen seems wrong for the part chosen.
A mesmerizing show-business Rashomon.
It's less a whodunnit than a whocares.
A metaphysical whodunit
Egoyan employs a keen sense of mise en scene to capture an atmosphere of '50s and '60s showbiz excess that percolates beneath the story of flawed people making tragic mistakes.
It was unsatisfying in every way possible, but at least Kevin Bacon manages to give his usual good performance.
In a refreshing departure from most 'making of' featurettes, this ... fly-on-the-wall look moves at a fast pace and captures the cast and crew with their guards down.
Egoyan's hypnotic new movie is a meditation on truth, identity, innocence and murder, a puzzle palace filled with locked rooms and dubious keys that stick at every turn.
atom egoyan is one of the best neo-noir directors, along with david lynch, brian de palma, paul verhoren and quentin tarantino since the 90s. i hate to say this but chloe is the first movie of his i saw, then this one. i've been continuously amazed at his stylish perspective to render man's obsession about the
August 30, 2010Super Reviewer
Although this noir film is developed in a correct pace and sometimes even seems carefully elaborated, the story is not really compelling nor very interesting. You will probably not remember it after seeing it.
November 30, 2010Super Reviewer
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