overrated

Rating: Null/10 (17 October 2003)

This was basically a mediocre story with better than usual acting and production values. What it boiled down to really was a kind of stupid whodunnit and a parallel plot of "could THIS guy have dunnit" and lots of s*** in between made to seem more than it all was.
With no-name or recycled actors, couldn't this have totally been a "TV movie" (which I unfortunately equate with lesser quality and less discerning audiences)?
I get the feeling the book had more to it, and Helgeland probably boiled a lot down as well he could, but when he did that for LA Confidential he had a lot grander scope of things going on, and for this, there really just wasn't that much there there. Eh.