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Title: Bang goes "poof!"
Review: When Antonio Banderas does the voice-over for a cartoon character in an advertising commercial, it's tolerable. But when his accent compounded with poor enunciation of English-language words is the voice-over for an entire movie and the speech pattern of the main character, it becomes almost like sitting through the scraping of hand nails on a blackboard. (The DVD comes with English subtitles -- need I say more?) There are films that come close to imitating "film noir", but this less-than-B movie is not one of them. The dialogue is loaded with buffoon gumshoe-speak that loses its comedic quality almost immediately. I lost all patience and interest after a half hour and fast-forwarded to the last five minutes. It was all I needed to piece the story together and make any sense of the plot.
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