Karen Gillan, Harry Greenwood and Marton Csokas also appear in Adam Cooper's neo-noir.
You know you’re getting old when your favorite movie stars are starting to play characters afflicted with dementia.
Crowe plays Roy Freeman, a former homicide detective whose sad state of being is immediately signified not only by those notes offering the simplest of reminders but also the stack of Hungry-Man frozen dinners in his freezer. He’s wearing a large bandage on his head, the remnant of experimental surgery he’s recently had to potentially reverse his condition. In the meantime, on the advice of his doctor he tries to stimulate his mind via such things as assembling jigsaw puzzles.
The film soon leads us down a rabbit hole involving a memoir written by a former assistant to the dead man and a romantic triangle that develops between them and one of the professor’s students , you’ll know that the dapper host makes fun of the fact that memory loss and amnesia are such oft-used plot devices in the genre that they practically invite parody. That feels like the case here, especially with the big twist reveal at the end that fails to land with the hoped-for shock value.
While the talented Gillan can be effective in a variety of roles, this isn’t one of them. Much more effective is Greenwood, who previously worked with Crowe onCrowe himself, as usual, is the best thing in the film, once again upgrading less than optimal material with his indelible screen presence. If the charismatic actor had been born decades earlier, he would have been spending his mature years mixing it up onscreen with the likes of Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet.
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