Sometimes washing out the color in a film's imaging can age impact to the story and setting, but that is often when shot selections and the environments photographed contribute as well - not so here. As for the story, it seems that 2/3 of the story was also washed out and tiresome, and things only picked up in the final hour of this 3 hour movie. There's a touch of The Usual Suspects idea going on here, but it is awkwardly tacked on at the end as a means to make up for wasting 3 hours of your life. Pass.