Adapted from a not very good novel, Night Train by Martin Amis.
This existential noir mystery would had been better in the capable hands of someone like David Lynch.
Patricia Clarkson plays hard boiled detective Mike Hoolihan. A man's name for a detective operating in a man's world of New Orleans.
Mike is investigating the death of Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer) an astrophysicist shot in the head in the observatory she worked at.
Rockwell was the daughter of a decorated Vietnam war veteran and businessman, Tom Rockwell (James Caan.)
The suspects range from her colleagues, boyfriend, her father to a one time notorious serial killer. It could also just be suicide.
With all the mumbo jumbo of time and space, we see that Mike is losing her sense of self. The death of Jennifer has had a pronounced effect on her.
The film loses all coherent sense as it goes along and it just gets more uninteresting. A shame as somewhere there was a good film trying to break out if only it had a better livelier script.
This existential noir mystery would had been better in the capable hands of someone like David Lynch.
Patricia Clarkson plays hard boiled detective Mike Hoolihan. A man's name for a detective operating in a man's world of New Orleans.
Mike is investigating the death of Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer) an astrophysicist shot in the head in the observatory she worked at.
Rockwell was the daughter of a decorated Vietnam war veteran and businessman, Tom Rockwell (James Caan.)
The suspects range from her colleagues, boyfriend, her father to a one time notorious serial killer. It could also just be suicide.
With all the mumbo jumbo of time and space, we see that Mike is losing her sense of self. The death of Jennifer has had a pronounced effect on her.
The film loses all coherent sense as it goes along and it just gets more uninteresting. A shame as somewhere there was a good film trying to break out if only it had a better livelier script.