Decent-enough little movie from Michael Keaton about a hitman with a form of fast-acting dementia, trying to put his life in order before he shuffles off this mortal coil, as well as avoid the police looking for him for a botched murder.
Keaton is good, but the script is patchy and the rest of the parts are underwritten. The actress playing the lead detective on his trail is noticeably amateurish, with a limited range of expressions and emotions. There seems no rhyme or reason to the onset and bouts of the dementia: it barely affects Keaton's plans or hinders his interactions with others, except in the mildest ways, and so what the character is experiencing is not communicated at all believably, and the condition ends up just being a gimmicky and almost completely unexplored MacGuffin.
The film doesn't really have a lot more going for it than what anyone would come up with from the prompt "Breaking Bad meets Memento", but it's still worth a watch, if only the once.
Keaton is good, but the script is patchy and the rest of the parts are underwritten. The actress playing the lead detective on his trail is noticeably amateurish, with a limited range of expressions and emotions. There seems no rhyme or reason to the onset and bouts of the dementia: it barely affects Keaton's plans or hinders his interactions with others, except in the mildest ways, and so what the character is experiencing is not communicated at all believably, and the condition ends up just being a gimmicky and almost completely unexplored MacGuffin.
The film doesn't really have a lot more going for it than what anyone would come up with from the prompt "Breaking Bad meets Memento", but it's still worth a watch, if only the once.