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Bridgette Lin is a hard as nails police detective, Maggie Cheung is a social worker and Chingmy Yau is a doctor.
Mort killed the detective he hired to intimidate the stalker.
Mark Harmon shines as a private detective more at ease in a library than carrying a gun.
Stray Dog is the other detective noir film by Kurosawa along with High and Low.
In this film a rookie homicide detective has his gun stolen which leads to a string of crimes each more violent than the previous.
While it is unlikely you could make it to detective and be as "green" as this guy, it does make for an interesting plot device.
We watch as the detective gets help from his fellow cops as he puts the whole thing together.
There are also interesting parallels drawn between the detective and the criminal.
She meets a detective on the case named Smith (Wilding), and the two start falling for one another.
However this was 1940, the era of the wisecracking detective and his sidekick neatly wrapping up the mystery in a little over an hour.
The female detective looks like a poor man's Michelle Lee in egg-and-pancake makeup.
It's somewhat convoluted detective plot has raised comparisons to Chinatown, which is both unfair and unfortunate.
Here he struggles to play a hardened detective reminiscent of Al Pacino in Insomnia, his lines are forced, he is simply a poor casting choice for this role.
He never reaches believability as the detective, and the dramatic subterfuge of a single dad with 2 kids is laid on so thick, he never sloshes out of the muck long enough to fill either role.
I belong to the first category: 2 kids growing up in a nuke shelter with a large collection of detective novels deciding to be the post apocalyptic worlds first dicks, The Atomic Dicks!
The main characters, detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), and his friend and personal assistant, Sharona Fleming (the very talented yet underrated Bitty Schram) are very likeable and well-drawn.
An utterly unbelievable criminal-turned-angel Delon tries to go straight after a 10-year sentence but the effort is shattered by an utterly unbelievably evil police detective.
The screen icon is a police detective with a difference in this very moody and formidable thriller from writer / director Richard Tuggle.
The plot-line is strongly reminiscent of 1930s British drawing room detective thrillers - you expect Hercule Poirot to reveal himself at any moment.
Owing more to the British thrillers such as the Quatermass films and the stark black and white horror films of Hammer (X The Unknown) or things like the Day the Earth Caught Fire (which while released 2 years later has similar feel) or Corridors of Blood, this is for a good chunk of the film a dark detective story of sorts as the monster remains hidden and the scientists try to figure out whats going on.
Jeff Goldblum was the 'perfect' actor for the character of a nerdy stock-broker-turned-Mickey-Spillane-wannabe detective, paired up with Ben Vereen who portrayed the role of con-man-extraordinaire that mimicked the roles of a vast array of characters... in order to close their cases.
In New York, detective Alex Scott (Christian Camargo) is investigating with his partner Sergio Perez (Carlos Leon) the disappearance of several children.
Miller's character appealed to me; I like a tough, wise cracking detective with a heart of gold.
I don't know exactly how many movies did Clint Eastwood make as a director and/or actor with basically playing the same role in also almost the same story every time, detective who makes no excuses and goes in hunt for a serial killer...sounds more than familiar?
And 'Tightrope' is exactly that kind of movie, although atmosphere is a bit darker than usual in Clint Eastwood's detective movies, which is a very good thing because the more darker the atmosphere in these kind of crime-mystery-thriller movies gets they get more exciting to watch.
Other than slightly different atmosphere, 'Tightrope' is same as every other Clint Eastwood's detective film, it doesn't matter what his character's name is, Wes Block or Harry Callahan, it's the same personality and work approach.
This movie is an integral piece - a complete cinematic vision, from the stellar black and white cinematography (with "deep focus" throwback to Gregg Toland, the man-with-the-print waxed enthusiastically to me about) to the noir overtones and the hard-boiled detective, the "Laura" musical theme interwoven throughout -- to the perverse erotic aesthetic.
Can the dashing police detective save the day?
"A Perfect Murder" is an excellent example of this, as the number of devious characters is increased and the body count is higher, and the denouement which in the original saw a wily police detective resolve matters now has one of those endings in which the heroine puts herself in danger.
Ace Ventura ,Pet detective is about an animal lover!!
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