on the strength of walter matthau ability with a character and the strong cast list and and the original swedish crime novel which be excellent i watch the whole thing and unfortunately . a someone else on this forum note and it work well for about the first 15 20 minute and then decay into pointlessness . the main character partner and play by bruce dern and be bring up short repeatedly when he make wrong move with witness and or say the wrong thing and so often that i expect an explosion . which never come and and that thread finally go nowhere . a meeting with a group of hell angel go nowhere and at least for the story . i could handle the dated costume and social norm and but after an hour or so and it seem a if that all the film have to offer a tour of sf colorful corner in the haight ashbury era and with a tack on murder mystery that come to no satisfying conclusion . it isn not necessary for every film make from a novel to stick exactly to the original and word for word and but the only good part of this film be that first 15 20 minute and which be transport fairly closely from stockholm and where the original be set and to san francisco . once the bus have crash and and the dead passenger have be identify and it go roll straight down potrero hill and into the bay .