Product: Spanish Judges
Rating: 4.0
Neo-noir? You betcha!
Vincent D'Onofrio, looking kinda like Max Schreck here, is a shady antiques dealer fallen on hard times, reduced to sitting in the no-complementary-cashews section at his favorite underground combination all-in boxing match/antiques auction. (They auction off (fake-looking) swords & stuff between rounds--hey Mr McMahon, there's an idea!) A mysterious stranger recruits him and his motley band of whackos to help in recovering a little-known but priceless set of objects known as the Spanish Judges. Dark hijinx ensue.The kind of film that WANTS to be called "stylish", which is usually a guarantee of disaster. But it works out to be pretty cool, in a dumb fun sort of way, in spite of its Mametoid/Tarentinoish aspirations. Good acting all around helps.Kind of thing you might well have several different sets of friends over to watch (or the same friends over several times & you can make a thing of yelling "Don't trust him!" or "Look out!" at the right moments, whatever), so probably cost-effective to buy it, once the price gets real.