this be a basic instict rehash plain and simple and actually it a pre draft of basic instict . the directing be a mess and i can not believe this guy shoot the french connection . but now he old and where he try to be different here and he be instead just plainly bad . tight close ups for no reason and bore set scene and saturate photography . the cast be decent but with such a trite script . the dialog be bad than trivial . it only save grace be an unintended one and and maybe with that meditation in mind this can actually become a good film represent because the grotesqueness and blandness and stupidity in the realisation and script of this film reflect the world of powerless unsexual moron act all powerful and sexual . obviously this be unintended a this try to be edgy and erotic and smart . it try to be a murder mystery and a who do it on coke a la bi and but it end up be a who give a . and i have never be so emotionally detach at the end of any mystery . but in this way it poetically convey within it form the artificiality of power and sex and the dead end that be pleasure without sentiment and sensibility . a bland and derivative and tasteless film about power and sex and wealth and that fail so miserably that it failure become a medium of expression and give the film an unintended second narrative level . it also starkly realist and because what can be more real than a failed hollywood flop on sex and money and power . you do not see people do realistic action and but you see people act and direct badly and write script badly . the epitome of decadence . it could even be quite a good sobering experience and even weirdly lyrical if one watch it with that in mind .