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Paul Soter (written by)
Release Date:
11 September 2008 (Russia)
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Sometimes love is stranger than fiction
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A film noir buff has his life turned on end by a femme fatale with a big adventure in mind. full summary | add synopsis
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Good premise, weak film
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Cillian Murphy | ... | Neil |
 | Lucy Liu | ... | Violet |
 | Jason Sudeikis | ... | Jonathan |
 | Michael Panes | ... | Lucien |
 | Callie Thorne | ... | Marcia |
 | Michael Yurchak | ... | Buddy |
| Heather Burns | ... | Denise |
 | Mark Harelik | ... | Detective Barloe |
 | Ali Reza | ... | Detective Lowenstein |
 | Josh Pais | ... | Andy |
| Brett Gelman | ... | Glenn |
| Lonny Ross | ... | Eager Customer |
 | Paul Scheer | ... | Annoying Customer |
 | Richard Waddingham | ... | Dennis - Bald Giant |
 | J. T. O'Connor | ... | Bald Creep |
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Poland:90 min (DVD version) | USA:91 min
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The title of the film is taken from a 1977 Elvis Costello song, from the album "My Aim Is True".
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Violet says she doesn't have a driver's license, but she still manages to drive a car to Neil's house. However, she may have told Neil that she didn't have a driver's license just to see how he'd react, just like almost everything else she did to him.
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References Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
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SPEAKING IN TONGUES
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Basically this is a pale shadow of High Fidelity, which was a witty and wonderfully acted film with several truly winning character turns. Watching the Detectives has none of that.
The premise of a video store geek swept off his feet by a quirky mystery woman is a good one but is never fully or adequately explored, thanks to a very weak script and the miscasting of the leads, not to mention the lack of any real visual story-telling style. I mean, this film is centered around MOVIES, yet is itself incredibly uncinematic! That's a major failing right there.
But the main problem is we simply don't care about the main characters because the script and the actors (Murphy and Liu) fail to make them true or sympathetic in any real way. So the film just becomes a series of episodes involving two people who seem, well, not terribly interesting.
Oh, yeah, another thing: For a romantic comedy? It's not funny. And the romance isn't terribly romantic, either.
So avoid it. Even at its 90-something minute running time it's just not worth sitting through...