boring!

Rating: Null/10 (11 November 2004)

Al Pacino has not gotten over his blind look from "Scent of a Woman" - he's supposed to look sleep deprived here, not visually handicapped !
The film tries to put a fresh angle on a genre and does not succeed. The whodunit with some protagonist guilt thrown in did not work for me. The story and the plot itself were quite trivial.
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Robin Williams plays the bad guy very sympathetically - is that because he's such a good actor that he can make you sympathize with a murderer, or is it because he's so bad that he ends up playing a murderer like the friendly neighbourhood candyman? I don't know yet, but I think that question is worth puzzling over.
Too many contrived situations - Dormer finds clues and loopholes with contrived ease - especially when there's a smart detective already on the case. Nah !
Disappointing offering from the BRILLIANT director of Memento.