First feature film from Bob Rafelson since his savory Blood and Wine, seven years previous, a heist-and-hostage thing to do with a diabetic grand-theft-auto detective (Samuel L. Jackson, wearing a hairpiece almost as plush as the one in Pulp Fiction) who, as a favor to a neighbor, goes looking for a missing daughter and stumbles into a $10 million caper conspiracy instead. (The fate of the missing daughter will never be revealed.) In contrast with the deadly serious caper of Blood and Wine, this one has moments of silliness (a cello-and-piano duet between the detective and one of the heisters), and even of farce, yet it also has modesty, moral integrity, professional competence, and nice noir-ish color by cinematographer Juan Ruiz Anchia. Originally titled The House on Turk Street after the Dashiell Hammett story on which it was based. With Milla Jovovich, Stellan Skarsgard, Doug Hutchison, Joss Ackland, Grace Zabriskie. (2002) — Duncan Shepherd
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