Mulholland Falls
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Chazz Palminteri, Jennifer Connelly, Melanie Griffith, Michael Madsen, Nick Nolte Director: Lee Tamahori Brand: MGM Cinematographer: Haskell Wexler Editor: Sally Menke Producer: Lili Fini Zanuck Producer: Mario Iscovich Producer: Richard D. Zanuck Writer: Floyd Mutrux Writer: Peter Dexter DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 107 minutes Published: 2004-11-01 DVD Release Date: 2004-11-02 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Mulholland Falls
Movie Review: "You killed her for nothing, you son of a [...]!"
Summary: 3 Stars
Human sacrifice is the cornerstone of civilization. Ten die so the hundred may live. Right?
The upside: this film stars a great ensemble cast--Nolte; Melanie Griffith, his wife; Chazz Palmintieri, Chris Penn, and Michael Madsen, his partners; Connelly; John Malkovich; Treat Williams; Andrew McCarthy, an effeminate witness; Daniel Baldwin, a smug FBI agent; Bruce Dern, the police chief, Louise Fletcher, a police secretary. The film looks super, and it recreates 50's L.A. in clear detail, and the dialogue is convincing. In conversation with Nolte, Malkovich (the Department of Defense nuclear weapons chief) draws the parallel between Malkovich's own "burden of leadership" (young victims of nuclear experiments being stricken with cancer or killed) and Nolte's (kidnapping and rolling out-of-town gangsters down a canyon) to protect the public.
The downside: although most scripts made into movies are implausible, the film has difficulty making a believable transition from everyday murder investigation to the scale of atrocity uncovered by the "Hat Squad." This lack of a smooth transition detracts from the credibility of the plotline and the cohesiveness of the film.
The director was influenced by "Chinatown," which is superior viewing, as is "L.A. Confidential," which was released soon afterwards. "Mullholland Falls" is a "Chinatown-lite," although set 15 years or so later.
If you can avoid overly critical comparisons with the best films of this type, you should enjoy it, too. 3.5 stars. (Adapted from my review of 5/23/00.)