Dark Crimes (2016)

Dark Crimes: Directed by Alexandros Avranas. With Jim Carrey, Marton Csokas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kati Outinen. A murder investigation of a slain businessman turns to clues found in an author’s book about an eerily similar crime. Based on the 2008 article “True Crimes – A Postmodern Murder Mystery” by David Grann.

“This film had a nice feel to it and was nicely shot. However the story came across as disjointed and didnu0026#39;t make a lot of sense. It was interesting to see Jim Carey in such a bleak role however to me it came across as a very staged performance – And Iu0026#39;m not sure if the accent was a good idea as toward the end of the film it tended to go from Polish, to Northern Irish to American all in one scene.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI remember reading the article this film claims to tell the story of and went back and re-read it on the New Yorker website today. Its an interesting story which this film strays from dramatically, inventing in the whole u0026#39;sex clubu0026#39; sub-plot and completely changing the ending. Canu0026#39;t help but feel that in this case, the truth is much more entertaining than the fiction.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs said I enjoyed the direction, locations and cinematography but the rest of the film was a chore.”