Film Review – Last Looks

“Last Looks” is an adaptation of a novel by Howard Michael Gould, who also provides the screenplay for the picture. It’s detective fiction, a slice of L.A. noir, only without all the rough edges the genre is known for. Gould is after something lighter with the material, trying to make a comedy about corrupt people attached to a brutal murder, with a private investigator caught up in the strangeness of it all, hunting for clues and meeting characters who would rather see him off the case. There’s cheekiness to the endeavor that’s a little off-putting, and the director is Tim Kirkby, a celebrated television helmer who also made the excretable 2018 comedy, “Action Point.” Kirkby is better with actors than tonality, getting decent work out of his oddball casting, but the primary whodunit experience of “Last Looks” tends to get lost in Gould’s preference for eccentricity, making this a rare crime story where introductions are stronger than resolutions. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com