Devil in a Blue Dress
Regie:
Carl FranklinDrehbuch:
Walter MosleyKamera:
Tak FujimotoMusik:
Elmer BernsteinBesetzung:
Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle, Maury Chaykin, Terry Kinney, Albert Hall, Lisa Nicole Carson, Beau Starr (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Los Angeles, 1948. Der Weltkriegs-Veteran Easy Rawlins hat schon bessere Tage gesehen. Gerade hat er seine Arbeit in der Flugzeugindustrie verloren und sucht einen neuen Job. Um die fällige Rate für sein Haus bezahlen zu können, nimmt er einen Auftrag an: Er soll die mysteriöse Daphne Monet aufspüren, die nach einer Affäre mit einem lokalen Politiker spurlos verschwunden ist. Der scheinbar harmlose Auftrag zieht Easy schon bald in ein Netz aus Mord, Erpressung, brutaler Polizei und korrupter Lokal-Politiker. (ZDFneo)
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Denzel Washington usually doesn't disappoint, and surprisingly, he doesn't disappoint in this noir film either, which feels a bit too contrived to have the right dark yet masculine atmosphere with explosive scenes. It's too contrived and not gritty enough. Still, I like the fact that in the 90s they made films like this.
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It's unusual in the context of the leading role of the African American community and related bidirectional barriers of segregation, but otherwise, the genre conventions remain unchanged. The man on the trail of a mysterious woman is used to be exploited, and amid a pile of questions and corpses, he gradually realizes that from the start, it was about something different. Something involving sex, shooting, and a few broken hearts. Carl Franklin could have delivered it more compellingly, but some details are worth noting. The impressive Denzel Washington, various types of Cadillac wrecks, the cynical Tom Sizemore, the unrelated involvement of an overly active neighborly lumberjack, and last but not least, the crazy Texan Mouse Cheadle, in whose vicinity it’s not safe. “If you ain't want him dead, why you leave him with me?”
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