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In a nightmare city inhabited only by criminals and police... a mystic detective finds a tool to catch a villainous outlaw.Plot:
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I thought it was just awful. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Peter Boyle | ... | Erik Lonnrot |
 | Miguel Sandoval | ... | Treviranus |
 | Christopher Eccleston | ... | Alonso Zunz |
| Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez | ... | Ms.Espinoza / Harlequin |
| Pedro Armendáriz Jr. | ... | Blot |
| Alonso Echánove | ... | Novalis |
| Eduardo López Rojas | ... | Finnegan |
| Alex Cox | ... | Commander Borges |
 | Karl Braun | ... | Sergeant |
| Gabriela Gurrola | ... | Hooker / Harlequin |
| Ariane Pellicer | ... | Natasha |
| Mario Iván Martínez | ... | Hotel Manager |
| René Pereyra | ... | Azevedo |
 | Roberto Sosa | ... | Drug Addict I |
| Bruno Bichir | ... | Drug Addict II |
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Mexico City, México D.F., MexicoMOVIEmeter: 
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I liked Boyle's performance, but that's about the only positive thing I can say. Everything was overdone to the point of absurdity. Most of the actors spoke like you would expect your 9-year-old nephew to speak if he were pretending to be a jaded, stone-hearted cop, or an ultra-evil villain. The raspy voice-overs seemed amateurish to me. I could go buy a cheap synthesizer and crank out better opening music. And what's with the whole 1984ish police torture stuff? It was totally superfluous and had nothing to do with the actual events of the story. Cox added a lot of things, in fact, that he apparently thought would be really cool, but had nothing to do with the story. That's a big disappointment because one of the things that makes Borges' stories so good is his minimalism -- they are tightly bound, with no superfluous details. This movie is just the opposite. I stopped watching after the scene where Lonnrot is questioning the guy from the Yidische Zaitung, or thereabouts. I wasted $4 renting this, but at least I can get some satisfaction from writing this review and hopefully saving others from making the same mistake.