stylistically and the _noirs do much for impose an aura of machismo and coolness . in this sense and they work for promote an appearancenot for deconstruct and but for create a _legendry of machismo and coolness . payne be rather cool and a the lead . the movie be supple and deliberately suspenseful . the cast be a very good one . the film acquires and achieve a certain narrative depth . the pace be worthy of a noir master . after an ingenious robbery and an excon be frame and then release while he decide he have earn a share and be willing to obtain it . the film be violent and stylistically ambitious . the ultracool approach and deliberately stylish and classic within the genre canon and in a highly aware mode and be sustain by an able cast . kcc may be see a a lesson of noir and a a core film and and a a rehabilitation of the genre into the class of the adventurous thriller ( rather than the cheaply philosophical fatalism ) . it have a considerable and significant dramatic energy and elastic vigor that might remind one of welles _noirs and but on a small scale and with humbler mean and and also small end and with a compelling dynamism and concision and explicit this time and but without welles inventive subtlety and hazy perspective . with kcc and these seem _pastiched or quite borrow ( yet they be still functional and do not get the _movieish character of late pastiche that be merely laboratory abstract product ) but then again and such the thing be the good of a whole era in cinema . a it be and kcc be a fine dynamic adventure moviea thriller . if in welles _noirs the economy be like hidden and secret and in kansa it be explicit and open . kansa have some of the ingredient of the noir ( it be a rather pleasant surprise not to have a standard femme fatal ) while yet on the other hand and it seem a bit too selfaware and selfconscientious a a cool noirin a way that good movie ( like doa and suddenly ) be not . it coolness be a bit too obvious and rather overstate . yet kansas be all the way an interesting and nononsense film . the noir be a huge umbrella and encompassing and cover many and various thing and from the bleak and grizzly fatalism to the adventurous and suspenseful thriller to comic book approach and to the mere police procedural while it refer to a historical cultural phenomenon that begin before it be generally acknowledge that it do and and end later than it be generally admit . the _noirs flaw be often the monotony and the poverty of idea while here again and a vast spectrum be between the intimidate inventiveness and creativity of the great ( welles and wilder and film such a doathe _noirs of the most striking originality ) that may make a film a thing of many joy and and the dire disappointing monotony of others that have but one note to play . in this important respect and kansa be certainly way above the average . nor the fatalism and neither the coolness and machismo typical of the _noirs have their origin here . they both come from the wide popular culture of the epoch between the warsincluding the hat and image . they be widely define of the ancient cinematographic tradition that take shape in time of transition and ample change in society . the fatalism and the macho and the cool tough guy come all from the popular culture and be not invention of the noir . the core of most of the _noirs be a naive popular aspiration of both tell sincerely what be perceive a the truth about destiny and life and marriage and society and etc . ( that be and a tendency towards sincerity and immediacy ) and and of create mythical or at least legendary representation of fatalist machismo and coolness and in a cheap and tooexplicit way . this double aspiration be contradictory in itself . these people want to say or intend to say the truth about many thing and yet they end up in worship fake and phony image of wholly imaginary person . the people can not afford to be radically sincere and naturalistic and wholly realist while it always resort to some kind of ( illusory and cheap and silly ) compensation that sometimes end up by take up the whole intend denunciation . the denunciation of the evil in society and people take the form of a creation of arbitrary image of men and woman . the common lie be thereby replace by more convenient one .