(What gives? I submitted this review last September and it was approved but I've just seen that it's not here. Oh, well, I'll just reupload it and see what happens this time.)
Entertaining caper about a plundered sacred jewel which was split into five pieces, the owners of which are now being forcefully shuffled off this mortal coil. But around that central premise, the writers have thrown in everything but the kitchen sink in terms of plot elements. We have shady rich people, sinister secretaries, strippers, jewel smugglers, assassins and a strange brotherhood in KKK-like garb, only black.
At the end the detectives look very pleased with themselves, despite the fact that, including bad guys, the body count has risen from 1 into the double digits while they've been conducting their investigation. They don't retrieve the jewels and never even find out about the smuggling operation.
But the police's utter incompetence is actually a good thing here, because it allows the murders to continue. If, like me, you're the kind of person who feels short-changed when a murder mystery restricts itself to one or two stiffs, then this is absolutely the film for you. Lots of fun.
Seven soon-to-be-six-feet-under stars.
Entertaining caper about a plundered sacred jewel which was split into five pieces, the owners of which are now being forcefully shuffled off this mortal coil. But around that central premise, the writers have thrown in everything but the kitchen sink in terms of plot elements. We have shady rich people, sinister secretaries, strippers, jewel smugglers, assassins and a strange brotherhood in KKK-like garb, only black.
At the end the detectives look very pleased with themselves, despite the fact that, including bad guys, the body count has risen from 1 into the double digits while they've been conducting their investigation. They don't retrieve the jewels and never even find out about the smuggling operation.
But the police's utter incompetence is actually a good thing here, because it allows the murders to continue. If, like me, you're the kind of person who feels short-changed when a murder mystery restricts itself to one or two stiffs, then this is absolutely the film for you. Lots of fun.
Seven soon-to-be-six-feet-under stars.