Retro-noir thriller looks stylish, feels empty
di Sam Adams The Los Angeles Times
Set in a dystopian metropolis bathed in shades of amber and blue, Rachel Samuels' retro-noir "Dark Streets" feels like a labor of love, the kind that blinds as well as inspires. The movie, drawn from Wallace King's adaptation of Glenn Stewart's play, drips with style, but it's all flourish and no reveal.
Gabriel Mann, who never manages to live up to his pencil mustache, plays the son of a murdered electricity tycoon, a lifelong wastrel who whiles away his dissolute nights at a swanky nightclub where Samuels stages dance numbers rife with Busby Berkeley borrowings. [...]
di Sam Adams, articolo completo (1514 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 12 dicembre 2008
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