This curious pic doesn't know if it wants to keep a straight face or make bizarre faces. It opts for both ways which results in a highly uneven genre bastard that leaves one unsatisfied despite some choice moments such as the sad coda, which works better than it should.
Oldman's desperate loser, Olin's over-the-top femme fatale, Scheider's old-school Mafia don... they all are individually convincing, but not when thrown together in a mishmash of soft-boiled philosophical voice-over ramblings, heavy-handed cop flick and film noir genre tropes and, eh, sexually connotated arm amputations.
So the pic's quite a mess, particularly in the story department, but it's still worth a look. At least, it's not by the numbers.
4 out of 10 tell-tale photo albums
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