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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
"Detective", like most Jean Luc Godard films, needs to be watched more than once before commenting on it. On first viewing it appears to be a little disjointed , with many characters roles appearing to be not clearly defined and somewhat ambiguous and the distinction between past and present vague. However on repeated viewings this all becomes much clearer. The plot is unusual; a former hotel detective and his nephew, an undercover cop, investigate an assassination that took place in a Parisian hotel two years that led to the firing of the hotel detective from his post. However as they are doing so , another murderous scenario is developing in the hotel in the present day as an airline owning couple on the verge of separation, a boxing promoter and the Mafia are all desperately chasing after money owed to them. The past and the present collide dramatically at the end of the film. All of the characters are strange and almost surreal; the Shakespeare quoting , deranged hotel detective, the adulterous wife and her despairing husband, the boxer and his teenage girlfriend, the cop and his teenage girlfriend, the Mafia godfather and his "poupee". They all make up a colourful cast in an intelligent, part farce , part thriller which gets better with repeated viewings.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I gave up after about 40 mins of the film as I was lost as to who was whom and had little idea what the story was supposed to be about. I suspect that an earlier reviewer is correct and that you need to watch the film more than once to understand it. However, I feel that a good film should give enough on first viewing to make it comprehensible.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Wilfully obscure Late Godard.
25 Aug 2000
After his experimental phase in the 70's, Godard supposedly returned to mainstream cinema, but this movie isn't many peoples' idea of a mainstream movie. It's title is deceptive as there isn't much of a noir plot and most of the movie consists of scenes and conversations that don't really go anywhere. Some of these are quite amusing, like a scene where people wonder why porno movies are refered to as x-rated. But the film is mostly frustrating, chiefly to be viewed by film scholars and JLG buffs.
incoherent, pointless, pretentious
20 April 2012
Godard is mediocre at his best, and this is the worst of that mediocre director. Incoherent, pointless, pretentious: these are just the nice things about this cosmic bore. To this add the stupid mannerisms. E.g., Godard likes to have multiple concurrent sound sources for no rational reason (e.g, TV running loud in the background + background music+ the dialog). Or people carry books and for no reason starting to read out loud passages irrelevant to anything else in the "story". Or irrelevant images like a chandelier is displayed frozen for no reason.
I wish i could give Godard zero stars. I think of him as a charlatan that should be run out of the business.
I wish i could give Godard zero stars. I think of him as a charlatan that should be run out of the business.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
In a bed for nothing
1 July 2010
A resort hotel's detective struggles to solve long-term mysterious killing of boxer visiting as struggling to meet hotel's bill pair tried to beat out money lended to a boxer manager.
If one is in males undies and semi-nude group no-sex scenes in bedroom, this shot will be exactly what to watch at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
If one is in males undies and semi-nude group no-sex scenes in bedroom, this shot will be exactly what to watch at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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