I expected a bit more bite to this movie. Perhaps a bit more of the cut and thrust of the movings and shakings within the political world. There's not really enough of that here. Instead we get a former-activist journalist who's found himself working as an investigator for his former enemies and whose personal life is falling to bits with his girlfriend leaving him and taking the furniture with her. Naturally, this is the kind of guy who gets obsessed with things, down to writing on the wall with a magic marker. Why he just couldn't buy himself a blackboard or whiteboard I do not know? His investigations are the result of the paranoia of a campaign manager for a local politician who is standing for governor. On the set of shooting a environmental promo, the candidate accidentally hooks a corpse in the lake with his tackle. Suspicious that one of his enemies is trying to set the candidate up, the investigator is sent to check out 3 unlikely culprits. In the end, these people turn out to be mere plot devices to give us more insight to the background and history of the politician's family. It does give us the chance to see Daryl Hannah though, which is nice! The plot is too long and too slow for it's own good. It never really gets anywhere and most of the humour is lame. There's even a convenient investigatory shortcut in which, out of all the migrant workers in the area, the P.I.'s Mexican sidekick happens to talk to the only two who were witnesses to the victims death. In the end, the investigation is fruitless, a wild goose chase that ultimately causes the pointless death of a local tyrant at the hands of an over zealous police officer! The best actors and characters in the movie are under-used resulting in the wondering for what might have been. This movie never really seemed to know where it was going and certainly never got there. For me it ended up being amateur and barely average!
Review of Silver City
