puerto rico provide a bright and beautiful backdrop for this dark film noir thriller which give a modern twist to this neglect but classic genre . aside from a rather dark view of humanity and noir film rely on suspense and plot twist and relationship . this film cleverly utilize all three . knock for be a rather wooden performer and lama be well cast a the stiff and almost emotionless lead and make a strength out of what would in other circumstance be a weakness and brenda strong be effectively evil and always hot . the plot have enough twist to keep from be predictable but build slowly enough to keep from be confuse . the slowness of the story be counterbalance and punctuate by action and violence and nudity . this isn not a kid film but then again film noir probably isn not a kid genre .