Buffronioc One of the wrost movies I have ever seen

YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

ShangLuda Admirable film.

smatysia Some high-powered acting talent in this neo-noir offering. I was unfamiliar with it, so I suppose it was not a financial success. Too bad, but it IS sort of a niche film, not necessarily one with mass appeal. Adrien Brody was typically excellent, as was Jennifer Beals in a small part. Yvonne Strahovski was great, even aside from from her eye-candy looks.There was at least one large coincidence that drove the ending. I realize that if no unusual things happen, then there is nothing to have a movie about, but even so it seems almost like cheating. But overall I liked this film a lot. Check it out.

kevandeb 0-40 minutes, 6/10, then rest of film 10/10. I appreciate the slow build up and setting of the story, but it was slow going. However, for those that can get past the first 40 minutes a treat is very much in store, the story, tension, interplay just keeps building and in true 'noir' fashion there are twists galore, as the film went on I grew to love it and Brody was in fine fettle just like the pianist and the jacket....... A riveting good watch, don't give up on it. Other great contributions were abundant and I found the clash of dark noir and modern technology in the setting a great conflict as one played off against the other, the Twitter reference was particularly pleasing. It was evidence that noir films still have a place in today's society and not just stuck in the 50's.

TxMike We watched this at home on DVD from our public library. It is an interesting story but things are presented in a way that often makes it hard to grasp exactly what is going on.Set in modern times, 2015 Manhattan, Adrien Brody is Porter Wren, a dying breed of newspaper investigative reporter. As he says in the voice-over today with all the social media that all the younger generation loves a story with pictures goes around so efficiently that once it hits the newsstand in print it is old news.But he did find a lost child and for that he gained a reputation and is sought after to find out what really happened in an 18-month old case of death. The one doing the seeking is the dead man's wife, Yvonne Strahovski as Caroline Crowley. We only see her husband in flashbacks, he is Campbell Scott as filmmaker Simon Crowley. We find that he proposed to Caroline the same night he met her, at a bar, and she accepted. But he turned out to be a really deranged guy. But now she wants to know how he actually died.Wren's wife is a noted surgeon, Jennifer Beals, still looking young in her 50s, as doctor Lisa Wren.We were entertained, it is an interesting story with some interesting twists, but not all of them made a lot of sense.SPOILERS: As it turns out the husband died in her presence. He was playing this dangerous "dare" game in an abandoned building set for demolition the next day. He had her chained to an elevator, threatened to let it pull her down if she didn't answer his questions. She gets the jump and kills him with a stab to the neck but he had swallowed the key to her ankle restraint. So she had to use a bottle opened to cut him open and get the key. All caught on video that Wren discovers. The real reason she hired Wren was to find out who was sending SD cards with damning video to Mr Hobbs, the quirky owner of the newspaper Wren worked for. Her deceased husband had set that up with an innocent woman who got $500 a week just to mail the duplicate SD cards to Mr Hobbs.

Ian I haven't read the book so I don't know how book and film compare but the beginning of the book (Look Inside courtesy of Amazon Kindle) is classic film noir.So the movie starts film noir and continues film noir although it sags a bit in the middle and the plot gets a bit muddy (maybe I blinked) towards the end but you still get the gist. (Again, I have to caution against letting writers direct their own material although this is by no means as bad as it could have been.) It's a super, interwoven tale of crime, mystery and drama and any fan of any of those genres should enjoy it.You might wonder why they changed the name from the novel's Manhatan Nocturne - unless it's because they thought American's wouldn't know what a 'nocturne' is! Other than that, there's no benefit and it loses a little poetic element...Brody is superb (as ever!), a terrific performance, Strahovsky is incredibly sexy and superb as the femme fatale (you know where it's going to go) and Berkof does his usual villain with aplomb. Jennifer Beals has a disappointingly small, almost throw-away part.But the film as a whole is eminently watchable and a must for noir fans. You might get the feeling that it could have been a bit tighter and the expo a bit clearer but it's still a good example of the genre and highly recommended!