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...except that those two characters are wrapped into one, with Pacino giving one of his terrific tormented performances in the role--impatient, arrogant and, in the long watches of the night, almost pathetically vulnerable. Williams is also good--an entrancing smoothy you can well imagine Will succumbing to. Hilary Swank represents rationality--a smart, inexperienced cop who deeply admires Will and can't quite believe the case she begins to develop against...
...tackle another twisty murder story. Al Pacino stars as a police detective sent to a small Alaska town to investigate the murder of a young girl. However, he accidentally shoots his partner while chasing a suspect, and becomes entangled in a deceitful mess with a local detective (Hilary Swank) and the killer himself (Robin Williams). Reports confirm that the story is not told backwards, or even in random order...
...downtown to work each morning, peddle stocks until mid-afternoon, come home and take a nap - so he could be fresh for an evening's prowl of the city's top night spots; his son still has a 1937 album of photos from El Morocco. Phyllis Adams, a pert swank Manhattan deb, has her own memory book of nightclub propositions from elegant gents, including Errol Flynn. Brooklyn's Davie Lerner had never been inside any of these tony boites, but when stationed on Okinawa during the War he designed an officers' club that reproduced the zebra-striped banquettes...
...However: there are an awful lot of us who lust after curvaceous rolling stock, and for so many Camry-dominated years, the only place we've been able to find it is in magazines - or cruising down swank streets like Rodeo Drive...
...Swank seems a little lost among them. There's something slightly mousy in her presence; she seems more a victim than a mastermind, a character actress trying to command a star part. Her cohorts pip-pip merrily through the historical flummery, letting their accents do their acting for them. Swank doesn't quite get the joke. Charles Shyer, the director, does. He understands that we're mostly there for the drollery and the decolletage. Every movie season requires a handsomely appointed irrelevance, and his movie fills that need admirably...