This is not a good film. It is well made, its greatest asset is the wonderful music, but the story does not hold water. The tempo is too slow all the way, and Darren Kendrick, although acting well, makes a dull and almost debile character - he commits mistakes all the time, the only convincing thing about him is his constant confusion, and the story gets side-tracked all the time into blind alleys, offering spectacular intentional question marks without any answers. The characters are not convincing, and when the film in the end finally tries to explain everything, it gets muddled up in a flood of new information that only adds to the confusion of the script. There is no clarity at all. As the film keeps building up in suspense and inttrigue, you are prone to expect some conclusion, but it all ends up in just a mess. There are too many murders, too many crimes, too many unresolved mysteriers, too many loose ends and too many people involved in them, dead and alive, making the film slowly but irrevocably over-burdened, too much confusion and no satisfactory reward for the audience in the end for having patiently followed Darren Kendrick all the way in and out of his confusions, so this is not a film I could recommend to anyone. You have to wait through all the film for a final gun to turn up - that's what primarily is missing here.
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