if you want to be hypercritical about it and you delight in point out plot hole and you may give this movie a bad review and while at the same time flaunt your critical chop . that anyone privilege . but if youre just look for an enjoyable film and you can not go wrong with this one . the performance be good and the setting suggestive and the script often clever and funny and the whole experience quite entertaining . can not quite figure out the plot . well and that would not matter . the character on the screen seem to understand it and that enough . by all mean and catch it on cable or rent it . it fun . and it will remind you why you find film noir so entertaining . so it isn not the maltese falcon . so what .