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Brown's Requiem (1998)

Crime | 104 minutes
2,75 34 votes

Genre: Crime / Thriller

Duration: 104 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Jason Freeland

Stars: Michael Rooker and Selma Blair

IMDb score: 5,8 (1.067)

Releasedate: 1 November 1998

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Brown's Requiem plot

"In L.A., The Law Is Still For Sale."

Fritz Brown, fired as a police officer for drinking alcohol, is now a private investigator, filling his time recovering unpaid cars and listening to Beethoven. His dull life is turned upside down when Fat Dog Baker hires him to help rescue his 17-year-old sister Jane. Brown realizes immediately that things are not right when he discovers that the sexy Jane lives with an elderly mob boss. Entangled in a web of crime and corruption, he faces the man who had him fired from the police force.

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Certainly not a bad movie. I saw this for the first time in 2004, and recently I felt I really needed to have it on DVD because I still had fond memories of it from back then. And once again, it certainly wasn't a bad movie. Indeed a bit Chinatown-esque, but fun.

To start with, Rooker delivers a very fun performance as a grumpy, antisocial, alcoholic inspector (I actually found that guy quite funny ) who picks up a girl who is in the hands of a nasty old man, causing him to get caught in a web. Then we get another nice good old conspiracy theme that also looks quite a bit like a film noir. Rooker is also delightfully ruthless, tough, and cynical, which adds a lot of nice charisma. The other actors, and especially that headstrong girl Jane, aren't bad either.

Certainly not a bad movie. Actually quite good.

4.0*

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Lovelyboy

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I wrapped up the weekend with this Brown's Requiem, which I scored at the thrift store and took home mainly because of the hymnbook written by James Ellroy. After all, I already have quite a bit of Ellroy's work in my collection, and we have the masterfully filmed LA Confidential. Brian de Palma already proved with The Black Dahlia that not every Ellroy film makes a good movie, and to a lesser extent, the same proved true for Brown's Requiem.

Take the usual story about a private investigator who, naturally, gets involved in a case he would have been better off leaving alone. And so it is in this case, Fritz Brown, who soon finds himself in a hornet's nest regarding the client and all sorts of people after this guy. And in itself, it’s not all that crazy, with Rooker fitting the profile perfectly, the strange Fat Dog case, and especially the couple Brown has to investigate in conjunction with Brown's police chief. And what do they say happens when you start stirring shit? That’s right, it starts to stink...

As already mentioned, it all seems pretty good, with a serious neo-noir atmosphere, a fine Rooker, the handsome Blair, and a considerable mystery regarding where the case is actually heading and why everyone is targeting Fat Dog. The only discordant note halfway through is the soundtrack, which I find too cheerful. But as decent as the film was in the beginning, the whole thing suddenly falls apart, where the characters suddenly no longer appeal, the plot turns out to be muddled and full of holes, and essentially all tension and interest have vanished just as quickly as they arrived. And I have to seriously think about how on earth the film ended. It perfectly underscores what is wrong with Brown's Requiem, which essentially means that the film is too inconsistent, poor script choices were made, and it cannot maintain the level. And that is a shame, because there was more potential here.

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