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A shy investigator assumes the identity of a small town murder victim in order to solve her gruesome death.A shy investigator assumes the identity of a small town murder victim in order to solve her gruesome death.A shy investigator assumes the identity of a small town murder victim in order to solve her gruesome death.
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- TriviaBoth Olivia Thirlby & Rachel Taylor starred in another movie . . . The Darkest Hour.
- GoofsThe police have the DNA of a missing woman. They also have an unidentified woman's body. In a small town where these are unusual events, over the course of months of investigation they have never compared the body's DNA to the missing woman's DNA.
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Competent neo-Noir with some flaws
Already the title of the movie conveys that this is going to be a noir experience, and while the beginning seems a little inauspicious in that regard, setting us up with a mousy-looking female protagonist instead of a weary and cynical male one, as is usual for this kind of genre, it does pay off as the character undergoes an unexpected arc and the movie's intrigues get more perplexing.
The cinematography and acting is pretty solid, but not outstanding. I liked the music, and the story was not bad, even if it got quite a bit far-fetched toward the end.
My main points of criticism are that the transition from the nerdy investigator to bombshell blonde was somehow not truly convincing, and that the protagonist and especially villain's actions toward the end seemed rather preposterous. In fact, the self-congratulatory tone of the exchanges between them at the end turned me a bit off.
In addition, due to the similarity of this movie's title with the erotic film "Wild Orchid", it sets up audience expectations for steamy love scenes, of which there is just one, and by erotic film standards it is more on the tame side.
All in all, not a bad diversion, but it could have been better.
The cinematography and acting is pretty solid, but not outstanding. I liked the music, and the story was not bad, even if it got quite a bit far-fetched toward the end.
My main points of criticism are that the transition from the nerdy investigator to bombshell blonde was somehow not truly convincing, and that the protagonist and especially villain's actions toward the end seemed rather preposterous. In fact, the self-congratulatory tone of the exchanges between them at the end turned me a bit off.
In addition, due to the similarity of this movie's title with the erotic film "Wild Orchid", it sets up audience expectations for steamy love scenes, of which there is just one, and by erotic film standards it is more on the tame side.
All in all, not a bad diversion, but it could have been better.
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- Feb 21, 2022
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