A bad film

Rating: 4/10 (16 May 2002)

Whether one is writing a book or a movie, one must play fair by the reader. A competent author or director creates suspense by cleverly emphasising some things and downplaying others. Not by witholding information.

This is a bad film because the story is told backwards. Naturally, the viewer is mystified. There is no craftsmanship or artistry in telling a story backwards.
The supposedly Turkish home of `Keyser Soze' was hardly Turkish. The movie being what it is, I suppose it is too much to expect attention to detail.

This film is little more than a montage of violent scenes and the sort of orotund dialogue Hollywood's action movies specialise in.

Pulp Fiction was a brilliant film because it tried a narrative style not used very much in films, but common in literature. However, no one would say that the story was told backwards. Singer should have studied Tarantino more carefully before trying this out.