Rollo Tomasi!!

Rating: 8/10 (15 June 2002)

Basically, the plot goes like this ... 3 cops, one shoot-out and a lot of twisted side plots that had me completely and utterly confused.

That said, I did actually like this film, and actually understood it at the end. I thought that this was a pretty unique idea, and god, I would have so loved to live in the 50's after watching this film!
The actors were all very good, but somehow I have a certain attachment to the name "Rollo Tomasi"! However, I still have no idea why Kim Basinger won the Oscar ... her role wasn't very significant and she didn't play it that well.
I think that Guy Pearce or Kevin Spacey should have been nominated instead - Guy Pearce played the goody goody snitch who was always bullied by the other cops [altogether now - aaaaaaaaw] and Kevin Spacey played the "celebrity" cop, who I thought was just so damn cool that he should have been in the movie a lot more. And he was the only cop who was nice to Guy Pearce!
The only thing that really did spoil the movie was the fact that there were too many different plots all interwoven and only tied up at the end - such as the prostitution, the Nite Owl killings, the drugs etc. But it was a whole lot better than Titanic.