Synopsis:

The world's greatest detective Daryl Zero aided by his associate Steve Arlo investigates a complex and mysterious case of blackmail and missing keys for shady tycoon Gregory Stark who is less than forthcoming about what is really happening!

Brian's Rating: B- : Apparently Ben Stiller can actually be cast in something other than a comedy role.  He plays the assistant to Bill Pullman in this twisty who-done-it mystery, and does quite a good job.  Pullman is is the comedy in this film as he plays an eccentric genius detective.

Its always hard to talk about mysteries, especially those that have twists, as often the reviewable content of the movie would necessitate spoilers.  This movie is no different, but I will say that I am usually hard on movies that have irrational plot twists.  You know what I mean by that, the writers cannot conceive of a way to surprise the audience, so they just write in a plot reveal that often has only very loose connection to how a rational person would behave.  This movie does not do that.  It has a couple twists, but they are not so outlandish as to ruin all plausibility.  For that I give it props.

I enjoyed the movie, it was a good mystery/thriller, it was confusing, but not too confusing.  I don't rate it higher because I am hard-pressed to point out anything in it that makes it specifically better than other things in the genre.  It was all done capably, just not amazingly.

I would recommend people to see it.  It was entertaining, and I am glad I watched it.  Like so many others though, I am very doubtful it will ever be seen again.  It lacks the "Usual Suspects" pizazz.

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