I liked the opening scene: Adil/Said is driving through a beautiful desert landscape when he has an accident, flipping the car and passing out. After that, he is ordered by some kind of gang boss to find a person. Then the movie slows down inexplicably. They are now in Istanbul, so the nice landscape is gone, and the next 30-60 minutes is spent on Adil/Said talking to various characters. Some of the dialogue probably gets lost in translation. It does not come across that interesting.
During these scenes, Adil/Said ends up taking on another job, introducing another plot to the story. The way this was done in the script makes it seem pointless and it's never really woven into the main plot that well, unless I missed something.
One bright spot is his Adil/Said's pseudo-niece, who is gorgeous and vivacious and gets a fair amount of screen-time.
The ending was decent, but the pacing was too slow and there were too many distractions from the main storyline. Giving it 6/10.
It's not really Noir. I can't explain why without spoiling it, but wanted to point it out if that's what you are looking for.
During these scenes, Adil/Said ends up taking on another job, introducing another plot to the story. The way this was done in the script makes it seem pointless and it's never really woven into the main plot that well, unless I missed something.
One bright spot is his Adil/Said's pseudo-niece, who is gorgeous and vivacious and gets a fair amount of screen-time.
The ending was decent, but the pacing was too slow and there were too many distractions from the main storyline. Giving it 6/10.
It's not really Noir. I can't explain why without spoiling it, but wanted to point it out if that's what you are looking for.