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Plot: Too much surface. Director Lee (The Edge) Tomahori's noir story serves as a McGuffin to its ripe style. Amid secret agendas and unspeakable acts onscreen you stare at the fall of light across o...( read more read more... )ld cops' desks. Musing on super-8 footage of naked Jennifer Connelly, your mind wanders. Ah, yes, an allusion to the opening shots of Chinatown. Roman Polanski's grand reinvocation of the dark intuitions of 1940s noir is there, too, in the sumptuous look, the plump list of stars (Nick Nolte, Michael Madsen, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich), and the swoony, bittersweet soundtrack. The zigzags of the story that bring together two cheating husbands, one pneumatic babe, and (somehow) homosexuality waywardly recall The Big Sleep. The Atomic Energy Commission subplot feels like an homage to Kiss Me Deadly. With so many other movies to please, by the middle of the film it's clear that the story isn't going to thicken, that for all the amperage in Nolte's performance, for all the male rage in Michael Madsen and Chazz Palminteri, the hints of sexual malfeasance aren't going much past Nolte's domestic guilt about his affair with Connelly. And yet there are rich things. Tracing a path from his girlfriend to the head of the Commission (Malkovich), Nolte listens, hat in hand, to a purring existential science lecture about the invisible world of atoms. "Yeah," Nolte growls, "well, I see too much." Would that the filmmakers had let us see more. --Lyall Bush

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  • puffchunk
    puffchunk
    3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 18, 2008
    Better than I expected, but still just another LAPD 50's movie. Don't know why there are so many of this genera, and don't know why I seem to have seen them all. Still, this one is by far the best. The cast is great, and hearing John Malkovich talk about atomic energy is fun-tacular. Plus Jennifer Connelly is smokin' and gets dumped out of an airplane (which makes her have floppy arms like gumby).
  • thomasscott2
    thomasscott2
    3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    March 23, 2008
    This was a Very good looking film that suffers because the plot is too similar to Chinatown's the characters and plot aren't particularly interesting.
  • Lissa420
    Lissa420
    3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    March 14, 2008
    First movie I've watched all in closed caption. Don't know if that affects my rating or not. It was pretty good. Had you wondering what happened to the beautiful girl and what was the military trying to hide.
    I liked when Nick Nolte spit all over the guy before throwing him out of the plane.
    Not much can be said for Melanie Griffiths acting but when is that new.
    Chazz Palminteri kept a smile on his face throughout the whole movie.
    I'd say give it a chance, but try to watch it with the sound on!
  • organgrinder136
    organgrinder136
    2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    November 20, 2007
    some regular actors in like nick nolte and michael madsen, chaz and chris penn you expect this is gonna be alright, and it was but that's all. it's so so. jennifer connely looked fit as fuck in it. the running jokes were stale after hearing about them the 2nd time. it wasn't bad and nick nolte is starting to become an actor whom if i see his name in the credits of a movie i might watch it
  • muttonman21
    muttonman21
    1.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 17, 2007
    Jennifer Connelly is smokin' beautiful here... and she's the only memorable attribute this film has to offer. Like Palmetto, Mulholland Falls is one of the most lame, most boring, most uninspired neonoir flicks to ever grace the big screen. It lacks the punch of LA Confidential, it lacks the coolness of Brick, it lacks action, emotion, intensity. It's a dull movie. But it has Jennifer Connelly, but she's wasted and underused. Tsk tsk...
  • johnd62
    johnd62
    1.5 Stars
    MCT:
    September 10, 2007
    I'll put this film in a simple and kind way. Lee Tamahori is no Curtis Hanson or Roman Polanski and this film is no L.A Confidential or Chinatown
  • mmcinally
    mmcinally
    5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    August 16, 2007
    An amazing movie. PLUS, you get to see Jennifer Connelly naked. Very difficult to improve upon that formula.
  • thereeldeal
    thereeldeal
    2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 22, 2007
    Nice cast, looks good, but the story goes a little off the rails. In the end, I'm not sure I cared.
  • domarad
    domarad
    4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 20, 2007
    Interesting look at law, military, and national security. Jennifer Connelly isn't bad in it, either.
  • garyX
    garyX
    2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 14, 2007
    An attempt to revisit hard-boiled noir detective movies that pre-dated LA Confidential by a year, but this is all style and no substance. All the elements are there, but it just feels like a half-hearted pastiche of ideas pilfered from other sources, and the ensemble cast of pseudo-untouchables are largely unused and frankly come across as a bunch of unsympathetic thugs. There's little character development and no depth to the plot but having said that, I didn't hate it, mainly because of the presence of Nick Nolte and Jennifer Connelly. But there are much better examples of the genre out there.
  • TrevorJ72
    TrevorJ72
    2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 28, 2007
    Not to be confused with the confusing Mullholland Drive, this poorly-done crime drama tries to be edgy, but falls really flat.
  • rune081624
    rune081624
    4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 11, 2007
    An excellent film noire mystery set in Los Angeles shortly after WW II which involves the murder of a beautiful actress (Jennifer Connelly) and a mysterious roll of film. Well worth watching.
  • vrtualme
    vrtualme
    4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 5, 2007
    A year before there was L.A. Confidential (1997) there was Mulholland Falls (1996). Obviously it wasn't as big of a hit, in fact most people have never even heard of it, but its still a pretty good movie in it's own right. It's got a lot of the same elements such as beautiful women, government conspiracy and tough cops breaking the law in order to maintain it. It's even got a big ensemble cast that includes Nick Nolte (two time academy award nominee for The Prince of Tides 1991 and Affliction 1997), Melanie Griffith (academy award nominee for Working Girl 1988), Chazz Palminteri (academy award nominee for Bullets Over Broadway 1994), Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs 1992), Chris Penn (Rumble Fish 1983), Treat Williams (Hair 1979), Jennifer Connelly (academy award winner for A Beautiful Mind 2001), Andrew McCarthy (star of the television series ?Kingdom Hospital? 2004) and last but not least John Malkovich (two time academy award nominee for Places in the Heart 1984 and In the Line of Fire 1993). If you're a big fan of mobster movies and such try renting this one; it just might surprise you.
  • jklein8787
    jklein8787
    0.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 11, 2007
    Great cast, atrocious movie. This is the infamous film where I watched the 2nd half of the movie in my boxers (no joke).
  • shsaint
    shsaint
    5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    January 16, 2007
    Just oozes class. From Nick Nolte's brooding characterisation to probably the sexiest female (Jenifer Connelly) in cinema I've seen since Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, this film had everything a detective thriller buff could want.
  • nanoqna
    nanoqna
    2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    January 6, 2007
    its an ok movie. but then it goes crazy and does all these politics movie!!! one time this guy tries to blackmail nick nolte. its got good acting but the plot is toooo full.
  • chocolatesoyadrink
    chocolatesoyadrink
    3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    October 23, 2006
    looks like it should be something special but ends up being somewhere left of the middle of the road.

    Sure the film looks good and the cast is impressive and next to perfect for a film like this but somehow, it never lives up to the promise.

    The plot is a bit loose and never really produces any surprises or touching moments or Mcbeth type situations and that is the main fault with the film. Nothing really gets you involved and hence, nothing gets you to really care about the story and the outcome.

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