Latest Updates - Melanie Griffith

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Comment by Magic Marmalade:

Feels like a made for TV version of an L.A. Confidential style movie...

(Being that this was before that movie, it s prbably better to be considered a prototype of that)

...Yet it's strangely unsatisfying.

The reason, I think, is that it is, as said, more in the look, style, and feel of a TV drama, in terms of production - like Columbo does brutal police violence intrigue mystery. As such, it doesn't really fit anywhere - too volent for TV audience this would be otherwise aimed at, yet decidedly uncinematic.

I think a look at the cast list for this, at the time it was made probably tells you a story on it's own - as now it seems, as the DVD cover blurb says: "stellar cast", was at that time, a group of actors who either two to ten years earlier or later might have been considered "stellar" but at the time were somewhat in need of work... any work.

It really goes off the rails at the end, as the finale is frankly absurd, and ridiculous.

Viewed as (if you can square your brain to it) a brutal TV drama, I suppose it is mildy interesting and enageing, slow paced and draggy though it is, but if you expect "cinema" it will suffer greatly under this definition, in your perception of it.