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· Year: 1988
· Director: Lloyd Fonvielle
· Writer: Lloyd Fonvielle
· Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Virginia Madsen
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| Synopsis |
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A private investigator is hired to prevent a man from being followed by his wife. The only trouble: the wife's supposed to be dead.
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RATING
Out of 100 |
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63
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| COLD ANALYSIS |
| 3.25 -ATMOSPHERE |
| 0.75 -GORE |
| 1.5 -HUMOR |
| 1.0 -SCARES |
| 2.5 -TENSION |
Gotham goes to lengths to combine a modern setting with old film noir sensibilities, and succeeds moderately well. The atmosphere--streetlights, steam, and darkness--is overdone a little, which lessens its impact, but director Lloyd Fonvielle keeps events just this side of satire. The role Tommy Lee Jones plays could have been written for him, and he demonstrates his ability to act without saying a word. And the immensely underrated Virginia Madsen performs her role as a possibly ghostly femme fatale to the hilt. Unfortunately, something about Gotham's writing doesn't allow its two stars to connect.
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