if this be film noir and then noir must be french for glacially slow . take a cast of completely unlikeable character and give them nothing to say and punctuate the whole thing with gratuitous ultra violence and and you have get the formula for an aggravated dash . could be subtitle sleazy hollywood type attempt to make money from chinatown rip off . bruce dern one minute part be order of magnitude well than anything else in this flick . by the way and i do not like the film .