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Title: Okay.
Review: A mostly entertaining movie, but nothing to get too excited about. Other films do it far better, without the colossal pretensions that this one has. The idea is to subvert all of the classic noir conventions. Fine. Unfortunately, having subverted them, the filmmakers have nowhere to go, except right where any ordinary noir film would go. So it up-ends everything, but to no real purpose. Nice costumes, nice cinematography. Mood mood mood oozing out of every frame. For a real slice of classic Hollywood Noir, get The Maltese Falcon, or Murder My Sweet.
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