Nice homage to film noir, but too complex a plot
“The American Side” is a thriller that pays homage to 40s and 50s Hollywood noir. Charlie Kaczynski (Greg Stuhr) is a chain-smoking, low-rent private eye working the seamier side of Buffalo, New York. His usual course of business involves using his stripper friend Kat (Kelsey Siepser) to scam his extra-marital affair clients into paying double. Charlie witnesses a murder while on the job one night and is thrust into the midst of a conspiracy and cover-up involving more murder and a notebook belonging to Serbian inventor and mechanical/electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.<br /><br />Though the movie has all the earmarks of traditional noir, its plot is overly convoluted and complex. Director Jenna Ricker keeps the pace brisk but fails to adequately connect plot threads. We become frustrated, wondering where we are, sort of like getting off a wild amusement park ride so dizzy that everything around us is spinning. Tesla’s notebook is the film’s major McGuffin — one of too many — and only serves to complicate the plot even more.<br /><br />Featured performances by Robert Forster, Robert Vaughn, Matthew Broderick, and Janeane Garofalo do little to clarify a bloated, confusing plot. After about a half hour, the movie becomes a chore to follow.<br /><br />There are no bonus features on the widescreen DVD release.
The movie title "The American Side," available on Movies & TV, has received an average rating of 3.4 from 117 reviewers. 
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : When Charlie Paczynski’s raven-haired partner is caught in the crossfire of a blackmail scheme gone bad, he trails the prime suspect to the brink of Niagara, only to receive a cryptic warning. Thrust into a world populated by a whiskey-swilling storyteller, strangely bonded siblings, and a dubious government agent, Paczynski joins the quest for a long-lost design by enigmatic genius, Nikola Tesla..