Modern noir involving a PI, tailing a subject on a train, a femme fatale and enough booze and cigarettes to kill an elephant. Languid jazz in the story sets the tone which is slow, enigmatic and deliberately confusing for most of the film. The story eventually comes around to its point...which ends up being quite benign. It even comes with a happy ending.
I thought MS overplayed the character's decrepitude but the use of shadows and interesting camera movement held my interest until the end. This was a solid re-creation of a genre modern filmmakers look back on with fondness...and justifiably so.
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