Huge hole in the plot.....

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2006)

As I finished watching this movie a huge hole in the story came to mind. It starts the movie with the beginning when Keaton is shot and everyone else is supposedly dead (as the story is told, this is understood to be true). Next during the story, the characters are placed in a lineup; to find the people behind this boat heist (after it took place, of course). So you get what I'm saying, the whole story is following around these characters who should have been dead before they went to the lineup (at the beginning) because they all died on the ship. Explain it to me please. Good movie but not worth owning the DVD once you figure it doesn't add up.
Singer and Quarrie show a perfect master in the domain of the film noir: an ominous atmosphere, nocturnal scenes which stay rooted in the mind and a deep psychology of certain characters which give more substance to the film. Considering the last point, the character of Gabriel Byrne is the most interesting one: a former crooked cop who seemingly redeemed himself in catering but caught up by his past and forced to come back to work. I personally think that Byrne is the stand-out of the topflight cast the movie boasts. But don't neglect the other members. Kevin Spacey pocketed a deservedly Oscar in 1996 and the rest of the cast doesn't stay on the bench. Maybe Singer grants a little shallow attention to the three others baddies in the gang but in a way it's necessary to underscore the fact that they're lousy gangsters embroiled in a infernal spiral and unable to perceive what lies beneath all this. Pete Postlewhaite and Chazz Palminteri make their scenes count too.