An investigation
among the swamps of Lousiana.
This movie
was never released theatrically in USA and that’s really a shame. This is
certainly no masterpiece and it could have been so much shorter but this is not
direct tot dvd material.
King here
is the mood. The swamps with their stories, the mists and the ghosts! are such
a refreshing view after countless California set productions.
The story
is wacky and really roundabout, it reminds me of a saner Tarantino. The main
plot is fairly linear to follow but it’s interspaced with subplots that really
out there. I don’t want to spoil too much but there is a ghost subplot which
according to the guidebook on how to write a story should have been excided because
it’s not really connected to the rest of the movie but in reality it’s somehow
the high point of the story. It changes the story from an almost banal
investigation into a kind of dreamy quest along the mists of the swamp.
Tommy Lee
Jones basically plays himself but for once this is not a problem. This movie
really needs the archetypical Tommy Lee Jones Character, the great grandson of the
classic hard boiled detectives.
As I
alluded in the beginning the only real problem is the running time. A movie
that slow, because this is a really slow movie, needs to be shorter, at 112
minutes it gets really tiring near the end.
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