Gritty Grifter Movie that is quite a nifty character study with some usual Neo-Noir twists and one not so usual. It has a commanding lead performance and more than reliable backups and a backdrop of cold Canada as the coarse climate conditions that feel fitting in this bleak environment of gangsters, con-men, and drug addicts.
The fortune cookie philosophical quoting that begins and ends the film in narration is clumsy and not needed. It is hackneyed and feels like an overwritten overture. It makes very little sense in the story here and is a small but glaring flaw in this otherwise understated display of a quietly desperate Man whose fate is fatal and futile in the Film-Noir.
This is not a comfortable situation and it is not meant to be. It is a cold world out there, especially for a recently released convict who served twenty-five years for murder. But in this Noir world the past is present and sins are rarely forgiven despite said paid debt to society.
The Samaritan Grift is unfortunately uninteresting here and there is a sort of a thinly scripted rush as things unfold.
The fortune cookie philosophical quoting that begins and ends the film in narration is clumsy and not needed. It is hackneyed and feels like an overwritten overture. It makes very little sense in the story here and is a small but glaring flaw in this otherwise understated display of a quietly desperate Man whose fate is fatal and futile in the Film-Noir.
This is not a comfortable situation and it is not meant to be. It is a cold world out there, especially for a recently released convict who served twenty-five years for murder. But in this Noir world the past is present and sins are rarely forgiven despite said paid debt to society.
The Samaritan Grift is unfortunately uninteresting here and there is a sort of a thinly scripted rush as things unfold.