Don McKay

"Jake Goldberger has lassoed a great cast to ham it up in this comical homage to Billy Wilder's classic noirs Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard." - Adam Keleman

Worth watching. It had moments of dark humour which reminded me a bit of Blood Simple. (I actually laughed a couple of times.) Looks like the writer/director is a Simple fan, which also explains the presence of M. Emmet Walsh, which was nice. The plot was interesting enough to be worth watching. Acting was successful all around. Church's acting could be interpreted as being expressionless, but I found it appropriately weird, and thus, good. Note: There was a spoiler on the back cover of my DVD.

What? No. This was bad.

Clearly Jake Goldberger has been inspired by the Coen Brothers and that's not a bad thing. While this isn't a bad debut it's not spectacular either. Rather it is merely a decent film where you can often see the intention of the humour but it can fall flat. That, in addition to some clumsy dialog, prevent it from being a good film. With that said it has a very good cast that definitely make the most of what they're given. It's a decent neo-noir but nothing more.

Crooked and a bit crazy

It's not funny, it's not thrilling, and the plot is a mess. Thomas Haden Church's acting is wooden, and the rest of the cast doesn't do much better.

Debut by Goldberg, who obviously is into Coen brothers films. Set up is quite interesting, but soon the story gets really over the top and the movie collapses on itself. It's amazing that unknown filmmaker got such a strong cast to work with, but the performances they deliver aren't their best.

All kinds of weird but still a bit of fun all around.