A Kind of Murder (2016)
Rated R
Starring Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel, Hayley Bennett, Eddie Marsan, Vincent Kartheiser
Directed by Andy Goddard
The Story:
Walter (Wilson) is a successful architect by day and budding detective novelist by night. His wife Clara (Biel) is unsupportive at best, and things just aren't right between them. Walter longs to be with Ellie (Bennett) instead. However Walter's obsession with a seemingly perfect unsolved murder may prove to be his very undoing.
Welcome to a throwback noir thriller set in 1960s New York.
The production values are stellar as it looks and feels as if the film and everything in it is straight from a bygone era.
The problem comes about from the story itself.
The perfect murder in question is pretty much just that, perfect.
You have the weaselly suspect (Marsan) and the overeager detective (Kartheiser) and these characters will go about making Walter's life unbearable.
But that's just it, it almost is unbearable.
His fascination with what could have happened makes him the suspect when his own wife is murdered, and naturally he lies and then lies some more.
The book upon which this is based is titled The Blunderer.
You'll feel like that is a very apt title the longer you watch the film.
Watchable, but in the end, rather unsatisfying.
Final Grade: C-
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