Watching the Detectives

2007

Action / Comedy / Romance

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 55% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 55% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 8779 8.8K

mischievous absurd

Plot summary

Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur.

Director

Paul Soter Photo
Paul Soter

Top cast

Cillian Murphy Photo
Cillian Murphy as Neil
Brett Gelman Photo
Brett Gelman as Glenn
Lucy Liu Photo
Lucy Liu as Violet
Mark Harelik Photo
Mark Harelik as Detective Barloe
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865.13 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 5
1.57 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 30

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by PeachHamBeach 6 / 10

Cute little caper, but very flawed

Reviewed by steve1480 7 / 10

many great laughs in a shallow pond

This is an original movie with some amazingly funny and surprising moments, some preposterously bad acting and action, and a premise and resolution that really strains the imagination. Plus some very very good lines. It's a movie that plays, rather joyously, at 'being dumb' (Lucy Liu's nipple pops out of her dress and remains there for a whole scene) but creates hysterical situations and carries them off thru the sheer pleasure of Murphy's enthusiasm. Liu's athleticism is on subtle display and it is pretty amazing. It also has two of the best rock and roll moments I've ever seen in films; one, a great indie band in a club running thru the heart riff of a unique song and two, a highly produced backyard karaoke performance that perfectly resolves the needs of the film's moment. The ending is kind of forced but to come up with a real resolution of this story would take a writer of true genius. Summary: not so good, but you can't find this many laughs of this quality very easily. A must-see for a totally non-serious I-don't-know-what-to-do-today day.
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