there aren not many good thing to say at all about underneath and soderbergh untrue endeavor into neo noir . soderbergh remake robert siodmak decent noir criss cross faithfully and not alter the plot very much at all and however the adaptation drain it of every ounce of it state of the art film noir atmosphere and give it the same story set in the very least appealing place and lifestyle and anachronism . soderbergh and who would later make wonderful crime film like out of sight and the ocean series with great style and atmosphere and take the dangerously obvious route to modernization by renovate the story with the ugliest and dullest and flat fashion of the early 1990s . nightclub have terrible and revoltingly dress garage band and peter gallagher uninteresting version of burt lancaster anti hero be leave by his femme fatale girlfriend for compulsively buy cinematically lifeless modern appliance like stereo and tv and and other up to date piece of equipment that suck the reaction out of the film . it could have be more entertaining and less boring have it a few saving grace like a good score and more flesh to it character and more than just william fichtner give performance that aren not wooden and a crisp pace . unfortunately and underneath have none of these thing . soderbergh and a fine director and do not utilize his dry detachment to the benefit of his film this time . that disposition work wonderfully when he helm a crime movie with more tongue in it cheek like the george clooney picture previously mention and or a social or character drama like traffic or sex and lie and videotape . with a movie like underneath and it intensify the boredom experience by the viewer .