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Title: Not good (or has that review title been used here already?)
Review: Other reviewers have noted the brevity of several great actors' scenes, but Mr. Del Toro's scene at the jail was at least twice as long as it should have been.There was some fairly good work here by some excellent actors--which was outweighed by ridiculous camerawork and editing. The attempts at surrealism were more often tedious and annoying. There were just too many such "Oliver Stone Moments", which gave me the impression that the main focus of the directing was on gimmickry--rather than on story-telling.Speaking of the story, that was a bit weak, too. Why did the film end the way it did? I could see no logic or cause/effect relationship between the events in the final scenes.What motivated the detective to run to the child's mother? Either he thought there was danger, or he didn't.Wierd, and disturbing? Yes. Thought-provoking? Yes.It provoked the thought, "Why have I wasted my time and money?"
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