Mulholland Falls

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Narciso R Fantastic movie, love everyone in it. First time I noticed Chazz, Aaron Neville singing after the falls scene, excellent. NRJ. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/19/24 Full Review Victor T Jennifer Connolly with her supreme beauty as a call girl is the only reason to see this film. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/20/23 Full Review douglas b Too much mumbling and not enough story. A wasted cast and art direction. Too bad. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Jonathan B Underrated mystery film. I thought the cast — Nick Nolte, Chaz Palminteri, John Malkovich, Jennifer Connolly — were all fantastic. It is a brutal and uncompromising look at the LA hat squad of the 1950s, and a foreboding atomic neo-noir (replace Chinatown's water angle with nuclear technology). Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/25/22 Full Review ronald h "Mulholland Falls" (1996) is an L.A. noir 1950's period piece with a stellar cast: Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, and Chazz Palminteri, with John Malkovich, Bruce Dern, Treat Williams, and Daniel Baldwin (Alec's brother). How could it go wrong? It mostly doesn't. Some critics have complained that the "noir" aspect seems contrived and some of the dialogue is corny and artificial. But isn't that true of virtually all film noir? Nolte plays Max Hoover, a married homicide cop with a secret in his past that comes to light when his erstwhile girlfriend-on-the-side is found dead at a construction site in L.A. To make things worse, a reel of film shows up at his desk, showing her having sex with a high-ranking military man (Malkovich), and there are allegedly other reels showing her with Hoover. In addition, the coroner finds bits of radioactive glass embedded in her feet. So Hoover and his three detective buddies (all in three piece suits and fedoras, they're known as the Hat Squad) investigate a nearby government installation where nuclear testing has been taking place. It's a good plot. But the real fun is in the mannerisms of the inhabitants of the 1950's. Everybody smokes constantly. Political correctness does not exist. The women all look like Playboy pinups. And the cars! The Hat Squad cruises around in a Buick Roadmaster convertible that's to die for. Also, Hoover carries a leather sap, which he uses to dispense with three annoying FBI agents and anybody else who gets in his way. Those were the days….. The opening scenes will hook you immediately: The Hat Squad walk into a fancy restaurant, take a gangster into custody (beating up his associates in the process), drive him to the top of a hill on Mulholland Drive, and dump him off a cliff. "Mulholland Falls," get it? "Mulholland Falls" is serious noir, almost, but not quite, making fun of serious noir. If you get that, you'll be hugely entertained. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review kevin f Another victim of the Peter Stack clown car brigade; Mulholland Falls manages to put a "star studded cast" into a solid story with a decent screenplay. Solid performances from an excellent cast, where surprisingly, the cast doesn't overwhelm the narrative. There are a couple of awful lines, but overall it's a sold neo noir entry that fell afoul of the insecure critic artiste that was a plague on the 1980's: Peter Stack, Mick LaSalle, and the legendarily clueless Glen Lovell, who brilliantly opined "Aliens" was the worst sequel Hollywood created, and the end of Cameron's career. Well worth the watch. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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