A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a
traumatic accident in her past, but one day, new terrifying truths emerge
that force her to question everyone around her.
Memento-like psychological thriller with no depth, but with a disappointing ending; Nicole Kidman, however, is very good in the lead role.
In 1964 the
enforcer of a Brighton gang, murders a man, who has himself killed
the gang leader, then a young waitress who
witnessed the gang's activity, to keep an eye on her.
Stylish and wonderfully photographed in a Noir style in some great set pieces the movie can't quite convince with its shoddy hoodlums (you never really see what their actual business is), and the protagonist's motives are hardly comprehensible.
Maltin**: "Sometimes affecting but too often clinical revision of Graham Greene's 1938 novel...Mirren steals the show as the girl's wordly employer. Writer-director Joffe manages to appropriate many film noir tropes but the leading characters are so off-putting it's to no avail."
