Watching the Detectives
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 12, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Genius Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cillian Murphy & Lucy Liu | |
Performer: | Jason Sudeikis, Michael Panes, Callie Thorne & Michael Yurchak | |
Directed by | Paul Soter | |
Screenwriting by | Paul Soter | |
Composition by | Nathan Barr | |
Produced by | Celine Rattray & Galt Niederhoffer | |
Director of Photography: | Christophe Lanzenberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
52%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 32,055
Rating: 2/5 --
It looks like it's back to doling out parking tickets and shotgunning booze for Mr. Soter, and I think Cillian's probably learned a valuable career lesson here as well.
Manhattan Movie Magazine
Rating: 2/5 --
Even mega-fans of either of the headliners will have trouble muddling through it.
Filmcritic.com
Product Description:
Screwball comedy meets film noir in the lighthearted movie WATCHING THE DETECTIVES. Cillian Murphy forgoes the menace of past roles in RED EYE and BATMAN BEGINS to play film buff Neil. He's so busy watching and quoting movies that life is passing him by. Enter Violet (Lucy Liu, KILL BILL VOL. 1), a free-spirited beauty who doesn't even own a TV. Opposites (inevitably) attract, and soon Neil's life is thrown into fun-filled chaos. Violet believes in living life, not watching others do so, and her energetic approach has an effect on Neil.
First-time director Paul Soter (of Broken Lizard comedy troupe fame) helms this film that's a love letter to cinema's past. Violet is a modern-day femme fatale to Neil's naïve sap. His movie geek status gives the film license to reference everything from the strange (TOXIC AVENGER IV: CITIZEN TOXIE) to the classic (BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID). Despite its good intentions, insider references, and strong cast, WATCHING THE DETECTIVES can't quite reach the heights of the essential films it puts on a pedestal. But with its lighthearted feel, it's not really about that. The best moments in WATCHING THE DETECTIVES come when Neil indulges the cinephile within, especially when he's joined by partners-in-crime played by Jason Sudeikis and Michael Panes.
First-time director Paul Soter (of Broken Lizard comedy troupe fame) helms this film that's a love letter to cinema's past. Violet is a modern-day femme fatale to Neil's naïve sap. His movie geek status gives the film license to reference everything from the strange (TOXIC AVENGER IV: CITIZEN TOXIE) to the classic (BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID). Despite its good intentions, insider references, and strong cast, WATCHING THE DETECTIVES can't quite reach the heights of the essential films it puts on a pedestal. But with its lighthearted feel, it's not really about that. The best moments in WATCHING THE DETECTIVES come when Neil indulges the cinephile within, especially when he's joined by partners-in-crime played by Jason Sudeikis and Michael Panes.
Description by Genius Productions:
Neil (Cillian Murphy) works in a vintage video store and wishes his life could be as exciting as the movies he watches night and day. Enter Violet (Lucy Liu), a real-life femme fatale who brings enough adventure into Neil's world to make him think he has suddenly stepped into one of his favorite movies. Being with Violet might just turn out to be a lot of fun - if he lives through it.