How entertaining? ★★☆☆☆
Thought provoking? ★☆☆☆☆ 10 March 2012
This article is a review of ENTANGLEMENT. |
“The murderer didn’t so much as kill him as deliver the final blow,” the widow of the victim.
ENTANGLEMENT is all very slick. The opening has Hollywood style helicopter shots of a beautiful town during summer. And this murder-mystery has high production values, including the cinematography, which is indeed top-notch. Unfortunately it is everything else that is so lacking. The story is convoluted and seems to be sub-THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATOO. We have a strong-willed female prosecutor, Agnieszka Szacka (Lena Czaplicka) surrounded by sexism and having to team up with ex-university flame, policeman Lieutenant Slawomir Smolar (Marek Bukowski). I think there’s meant to be chemistry between them. Even a gratuitously shoehorned sex scene still lacks spark.
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The murder of Henryk Telak happens during a weird group therapy session in a castle. Through stilted dialogue exchanges, unbelievable alleged criminal investigation procedure, and annoying coincidence, a greater conspiracy is hinted at – towards Poland’s past (and cementing that DRAGOON TATOO comparison). There are laughable moments, from an embarrassingly choreographed and edited toilet fight sequence, to the police not finding a dictaphone under the victim’s bed (which also conveniently holds many useful clues). There is a hint that the wider case might blow open interesting things about what occurred before the fall of the Iron Curtain, though by the end it appears the opportunity has been wasted.
ENTANGLEMENT is like something out of the 80s. Not in a good way.
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