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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 9 Critics What's this?

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper. A simple job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 9
  2. Negative: 5 out of 9
  1. Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    May 14, 2011
    75
    Isn't overwhelmingly good, but it's just nutty enough to keep you watching.
  2. Reviewed by: Andrew Barker
    May 14, 2011
    50
    A borderline unintelligible, scattershot attempt at Lynchian neo-noir that takes intellectual and aesthetic risks it has no reasonable hope of pulling off. And yet train wreck that it may be, it's completely watchable, at times garishly eye-catching, and certainly the only film in theaters that features Snoop Dogg comparing himself to Alfred Hitchcock.
  3. Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    May 13, 2011
    38
    For a noir, the film is way too talky and convoluted, yet for a physics lesson, it's trash.
  4. Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    May 10, 2011
    20
    Agent-turned-director Tony Krantz has a penchant for stylization that quickly slides into a velvet-painting cheesiness, which-along with the script's pseudoprofound Philosophy 101 maxims-renders the atmosphere less noirish than ridiculously cartoonish.

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