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Title: Misfire
Review: Inspired by German expressionism and film-noir this film fails to be genuinely paranoid as a running Jeremy Irons through film-noir nighttime streets of this Eastern European city fail to convince. The conceit is a brilliant one as individualism and hope is crushed in a totalitarium state where conformity is demanded. I hoped for a disturbing ending similar to what Terry Gilliam did to his protoganist at the end of BRAZIL. That ending was truly organic to the storytelling. The ending to KAFKA with Jeremy Irons did not have the chill factor I expected in this film. This is one of Soderbegh's early films and it shows. It needed to be deleriously paranoid and over-the-top. Apart from some startling visuals the film plays it extremely safe within the context of this genre. Soderbegh would go on and direct THE GOOD GERMAN and improve as a director from the soft movie that is KAFKA.
