A Thief of Time (2004) (TV)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Chris Eyre

Writers:

Alice Arlen (writer)
Tony Hillerman (novel)

Release Date:

11 July 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Mystery

Plot:

Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from a burial site.

Plot Keywords:

Third Part | Part Of Trilogy | Sequel | Based On Novel

Cast

Gary Farmer	...	Captain Largo
Adam Beach	...	Jim Chee
Ernest Tsosie III	...	Dispatcher Clem Allison
Wes Studi	...	Joe Leaphorn
Sheila Tousey	...	Emma Leaphorn
Kelly Byars	...	Delbert Tsosie
Alex Rice	...	Janet Pete
Beth Grant	...	Ranger Mildred Luna
Natowa Garcia	...	Larry
Kenneth White Eagle Wings	...	Pete Etcitty
Dawn Lewis	...	Maxie Davis
Graham Greene	...	Slick Nakai
Lee Tergesen	...	Randall Elliot
Susan Conklin	...	Marcia
David House	...	Dumont's Butler

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Esperanto

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Netherlands:6

Filming Locations:

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Company:

Granada Film Productions

Movie Connections:

Follows The Dark Wind (1991)

This movie is the real thief of time...

I like Wes Studi & especially Adam Beach, but whoa is this movie a load of pretentiousness. Ponderously slow. Overly cryptic to the point of obfuscation, not because the plot warrants it but because there is almost no plot. Even less in the way of characterization. This is almost like one of those creaky old Charlie Chan mysteries (the cheaper Monogram studio versions) with lots of red herrings & oddball characters (like the old ex-senator with the checkered past who is now a recluse) & loads of people getting killed over objets d'art that you wouldn't look twice at in the mall. Great scenery, though. Pretty hair on the redhead, too, although I never did figure out what she was doing in this at all. Neither could my wife. Sheesh, at least the old B-movies had the decency to be short.