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Title: Disappointing Film Noir
Review: I purchased expecting to see the battle of good vs. evil inside a young man's mind: the psychological edge of matters, that is. And I was very disappointed. It was, on the whole, a relatively humane treatment of savagery, that is, given the topic: but yet still too violent, and exagerated. Further, the whole plot became increasingly improbable and without much, if any, of the noetic and spiritual insight I was hoping for. I gave up on the movie 25 odd minutes from the end: it is quite long. In short, too much meaningless cruelty, and not enough thought, or even for that matter, plot. I advise staying with the classics, such as Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity", Hitchcock's "Rope", or perhaps one of Brian De Palma's suspense mysteries. Another film of late, that I highly recommend, btw, is "Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq", starring French actor Gerard Depardieu.
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