I went into this really wanting to love it. Cassavetes is someone I’ve been dying to explore. The lighting in this really cool and plays with the noir aspects he is exploring. However I had a hard time liking anything else. The nightclub scenes went on far too long and weren’t that interesting despite Cosmo wanting them to be more than just a strip show. The MC Teddy reminds me of how Danny DeVito will eventually look when he plays the Penguin in BATMAN RETURNS. The actual plot is good, but the pacing is so slow that it was hard to follow along with everything. If this had been a short film that was 30 minutes long I’d have appreciated it more.
