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Charlie (Dan Coplan) is a down-on-his-luck documentary filmmaker who's
serious about his craft and able to turn out really powerful stuff given
the chance - but he's also always chasing after the next paycheck, so when
Russian oligarch Boris Levashov (Chris Game) hires him to interview
billionaire John T. Conover (Robert Davi), who has been living the last 15
years as a recluse and shuns all publicity, Charlie gladly accept, as the
money offered should get him through a whole year easily. He has no idea
how to find Conover though, and has only a couple of clues, one's a comedy
club, the other's a woman, America (Leona Paraminski) - and somehow that's
enough to attract the attention of Conover, who out of the blue invites
him to his yacht. And it turns out things couldn't go any better, not only
does Conover agree to do the interview, also that woman, America, falls
madly in love with him - and vice versa. Sure, it turns out she has a rare
blood disease and might die within weeks, but then it turns out he would
be the ideal donor for her. So everything couldn't be better - until, not
long after the interview Conover is been found murdered, Charlie's
apartment has been ransacked and all the footage he has taken has been
stolen, and somehow he has gotten in the middle of some big-time exonomic
conspiracy he hasn't even known existed, and it's right then when
America's condition suddenly worsens, and she needs Charlie's blood, now
...
An interesting mix of neo noir (with quite some parallels to
Roman Polanski's Chinatown), romance and melodrama that might not
move at the fastest of paces but is well-enough structured to keep one
interested throughout, and containing even more surprises than the usual
thriller of its ilk. And a subtle directorial effort that invariably
chooses story over spectacle, paired with a solid cast, keep things
down-to-earth and relatable to grant some nice, laid back genre
entertainment.
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