I don't know if these questions will be considered spoilers, but could anyone figure out who killed the architect/writer's wife, or is it a suicide? Does the architect die at the end? Is there a connection at all between the bookseller and the architect? Does Ellie - the architect/writer's mistress - have a bloody thing to do with the plot? Is the entire thing simply a story written by the architect/writer, as seems to be indicated in the film's last frame? Who's on first? What's on second? Third base!
"A Kind of Murder" is a very stylish neo-noir film in the style of Hitchcock, but utterly fails to resolve ongoing questions central to the plot (see above). It's as though a good 15 minutes is missing, the 15 minutes that would have explained WTF is going on. Perhaps the screenplay's final draft went missing, and they went with the rough instead. I don't know, but the narrative is short on coherence. This is definitely a case of style over substance, which is unfortunate, because the cast is quite good. The production design is on par with better films in my opinion, but the story lacks cohesion and anything resembling a satisfactory conclusion. I'd recommend skipping this, unless you enjoy being frustrated by films that leave you hanging, and could have been much better.
Two stars out of ten. Meh.
"A Kind of Murder" is a very stylish neo-noir film in the style of Hitchcock, but utterly fails to resolve ongoing questions central to the plot (see above). It's as though a good 15 minutes is missing, the 15 minutes that would have explained WTF is going on. Perhaps the screenplay's final draft went missing, and they went with the rough instead. I don't know, but the narrative is short on coherence. This is definitely a case of style over substance, which is unfortunate, because the cast is quite good. The production design is on par with better films in my opinion, but the story lacks cohesion and anything resembling a satisfactory conclusion. I'd recommend skipping this, unless you enjoy being frustrated by films that leave you hanging, and could have been much better.
Two stars out of ten. Meh.