Even in color some of the greatest film noir ever

Rating: 9/10 (22 May 2003)

Ambition, lust, greed, this is how to motivate heros. The central figures are never sugar coated and become the greater for it, nothing so cornball as good triumphant here just bad men stopping evil men, but you almost feel like they are good guys and we can feel hope for ourselves as well. Plus a good script, wonderful direction, and Kim Basinger in those period dresses wow. A must see movie on the order of The Big Sleep or The Maltese Falcon.