Bettina Devin, Jeff Atik, Kristina Negrete

Private detective Sam Ruben's clever plan falls apart with the onset of amnesia. Everyone is trying to kill him and he doesn't know why. The classic film noir milieu now comes to you in the form of an...( read more  read more... ) animated feature.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 37 min.

Directed by: D. Jud Jones, Risto Topaloski

Release Date: March 2, 2007

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  • November 7, 2009
    Hahaha! OK, let's begin.

    This garbage is a rare mix of the elements of a classic film noir with the badass attitude of Sin City (2005). The premise and even the trailer may look fabulous, but this Serbian coproduction disguises a huge amount of lack of talent with forced excus...( read more)es for showing sexual content and mindless action and violence. The plot is lame and pretty close to the most basic and retarded you could ever find. It even stops caring before you do. The animation brought mixed feelings. It felt cool, but all of the characters have videogame faces and the film itself looks like a cheap videogame adaptation, even adding real-life backgrounds instead of animated. Good fun, but completely disappointing mainly because it provides more hype and expectations than the ones it really deserves.

    51/100
  • September 29, 2008
    The title is "film noir" and guess what? It has all the common features you'd expect in a film noir. Constant rain, darkness, voice-overs and a detective-like protagonist - in search for his identity after a bad case of amnesia.

    The cinematography should be mentioned: it was...( read more) all animated, and black in white - with the exception of red lips and nails, as well as the occasional neon lighting for the stripclub. Yes, this film has got everything you'd expect from a film-noir, but that's also why I can't give it any more than 3.5 stars.
  • July 26, 2008
    "Cartoon Noir"
    ...that contains nudity and graphic sexual content.

    The animation doesn't really work in this movie, the lack of the "human touch" in the characters makes them unappealing, I mean that: one simply doesn't "visually" feel what they feel, and that is a major big th...( read more)umb down: If your gonna make a animated film you have to make the characters charismatic, so we care about them, that is the point! BUT the story is good and well scripted, it has all the Noir elements that will keep you entertained.
    WARNING: If you by any means are about to see this film, Watch it at conscience: you will get bored if you don't fallow the story!
  • June 11, 2008
    A great neo-noir animated film. I really enjoy neo-noir, however there is such a small amount being released these days. The animation style was superb. There was a lot of nudity and sex at the beginning, which will satisfy the perves. I'd definitely recommend this for people who...( read more) don't usually like cartoons because this isn't like your normal cartoon.

    The main negative part of this film was the fact that some of the shootout scenes contained people shooting a machine gun at someone from not that far away and emptying a whole clip and not hitting the person.
  • June 8, 2008
    I really enjoyed this flick, everything about it actually, especially the style.

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