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'Dark Crimes' (2018)

One thing's for sure, Jim Carrey impressed me.

By Peter PPublished 5 years ago 3 min read
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Summary:

Tadek, a police officer who finds similarities between the assassination of a policeman and a crime narrated in a book by the writer, Krystov Kozlow. When Tadek begins to track down Kozlow and his girlfriend, a mysterious underground sex club worker, his obsession will grow and descend to the underworld of sex, lies, and corruption to find the terrible truth.

Genre

Crime/Drama

Country

UK/Poland/USA

Cast

Jim Carrey: TadekMarton Csokas: KozlovCharlotte Gainsbourg: Kasia

Director

Alexandros Avranas

My Opinion on Dark Crimes

You’re the girl in the inner room.Alicja is your story.You talked, he wrote it down.

I suppose it’s almost impossible to use an exuberant color palette for a film situated in a Slavic country. Every time the story takes place in such a communist or ex-communist country, the screen is filled with depressing colors. The closer one approaches Russia (the motherland of Communism) the more gray, grizzled, and duller the images become. The desolation and gloom are splashing off the screen. Everything seems bare, simplistic, and simply boring. To camouflage this problem in a film, one must have a fascinating and intriguing story, played by colorful actors. But that’s missing in Dark Crimes. Even Jim Carrey has an impressive, gray beard. With a little imagination, you look at it as if it’s an old-fashioned black and white movie.

Carrey did a great job in this serious movie.

Dark Crimes is based on an article from The Washington Post about Krystian Bala, a writer who described an unsolved murder in detail in one of his books and was arrested based on this. Perhaps an interesting item to make a film about. But here the pace is similar to writing a book. Painfully slow. And Jim Carrey couldn’t remedy that by himself. This goofball who got in a fight with God Himself, who got plagued by a gang of penguins, and who put laxative in the coffee of his best friend, wasn’t so bad in this more serious role. Unfortunately, his career has marked this good man. I expected any minute a spastic grin while doing an absurd dance with lots of leg-swinging. Personally, I think it’s quite logical because that’s the kind of movie role I associate Jim Carrey with. There aren’t many comedians who succeed to convince in a serious film.

Dull, duller, dullest.

The only thing this film radiates is dullness. And not just because of the scenery. The story is immensely long-winded. And as a fill-up, additional plots were added. So you’ll be presented with the story of the degraded detective and his will to take revenge on the injustice done to him. Obviously, you get the story of a detective who wants to solve the last case before he retires, a bit like Morgan Freeman in Se7en. But this time it’s because he wants to see his name fully cleared. There’s also the neglected wife who can’t longer cope with the absence and obsession of her husband. And finally, there’s the sex slave Kasia (Charlotte Gainsbourg), girlfriend of the writer Kozlov (Marton "The Equalizer"Csokas), who’s the culprit according to Tadek. She’s a drug addict and her SM past creates sinister images.

One last time, Jim Carrey impressed.

There are only a few moments you could call exciting, and that’s every time the writer Kozlov comes into the picture. His pseudo-intellectual jibber-jabber may not be essential from a substantive point of view, but his charisma and personality fill the screen completely. These were a few moments when you could feel the tension and intensity. Perhaps Charlotte Gainsbourg also caused a certain tension with certain images. However, all praise for Jim Carrey who impressed me in an otherwise not-so-impressive film. His stiffness, resentment, and the moments in which he realizes that he was wrong (with gagging as a result) are brought in an excellent way by Carrey. But that’s about it in this mediocre film.

My rating 5/10Links: IMDBMore reviews here

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Peter P

I'm Peter,born in 1966 and from Belgium. Married with Veronika.Two lovely kids,Karolien & Filip.I'm a big movie-fan.That's why I created a blog.It's fun writing for it.Leave a comment there.That'll make my day :) http://movie-freak.be

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