the best in the past year

Rating: 9/10 (8 June 2002)

first i thought it would be terribly confusing and hard to follow, but soon i realized i was wrong. i couldn't understand the opening titles scene, but suddenly it all started to make sense: that's maybe the best thing the director does, it gets the viewer inside the plot as soon as possible and hooks you inside the trama as if you were another character trying to uncover the murderer of shelby's wife. who's being honest? who's not? the first impression you have of shelby, natalie and teddy will certainly change at some point of the movie, making you hate or feel sorrow for him/her . not to mention the script and the acting, and the sets, all city, which makes you think you're watching an independent film like reservoir dogs instead of this pretty professional piece of work