this long beach thriller should have be a nice noir outing and atmospheric and exciting and instead it a lousy melodrama while it have a nice cast ( deniro and dzundza again a a sidekick and deniro movie exwife maggie ) and a great title and and nothing else . de niro look rather bore and blasé . a i know not what city by the see stand for and i imagine a small town atmospheric noir thriller . catonjones will not raise above the level of his own basic instinct 2 and the jackalstarvehicles and essentially derivative and exploitative while only that city by the sea be below those and and yet another wasting of a de niro performance ( though catonjones be not alone to blameas de niro himself look rather uncooperative ) . catonjones flick essentially lack kick and gusto and excitement and and this de niro vehicle be bad than usual . other than maggie and a movie with ugly actor . de niro ex wife maggie ( some patti lupone ) be quite hot in the milf class and you can see her tit in her first scene and when her son come home at night . otherwise and other than maggie tit and the flick be completely disappointing and it have no atmosphere and and the noir be not an anaerobic genre and de niro act seem again to be on autopilot and something happen to this guy and he look wholly disabuse and unappealingand only think at the stallion he be in the 70 . it not about age and but about lose brio and direction . dzundza be quite uninspired in his support part and too . city by the sea recall me verhoeven not only because of catonjones bi installment and but also because of dzundza and much good a douglas sidekick while verhoeven know how to do exploitation and catonjones doesn not .