Synopsis
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
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Cast
- Nick NolteMax Hoover
- Melanie GriffithKatherine Hoover
- Chazz PalminteriElleroy Coolidge
- Michael MadsenEddie Hall
- Chris PennArthur Relyea
- Treat WilliamsFitzgerald
- Jennifer ConnellyAllison Pond
- Daniel BaldwinMcCafferty
- Andrew McCarthyJimmy Fields
- John MalkovichGeneral Thomas Timms
Recommandations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
This is the kind of movie where every note is put in lovingly. It's a 1950s crime movie, but with a modern, ironic edge: The cops are just a shade over the top, just slightly in on the joke. - 80
The New York Times
Mulholland Falls is so well cast and relentlessly stylish (thanks to some fine technical talent assembled here) that its sheer energy prevails over its shaky plot. - 63
ReelViews
Mulholland Falls isn't a bad film, but it definitely is disappointing, especially coming from director Lee Tamahori, who brought the powerful Once Were Warriors to the screen. Tamahori's direction is inconsistent, but, ultimately, this movie is undermined by its screenplay. Certain aspects are laudable, but, all things considered, those elements aren't enough to keep Mulholland Falls from slipping over the edge into mediocrity. - 60
BBC
Mulholland Falls is a period thriller that is distinguished by an excellent cast, even if most of them seem to be outdoing each other in deep gravel voices. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mulholland Falls is a provocative crime drama with a limp script and a forced feeling. But star Nick Nolte is a ticking time bomb as a brutal Los Angeles police detective with a hulking, gasping sense of pain and meanness. He gives the film an odd, askew tone that keeps it tough and alive. - 40
Variety
Mulholland Falls is a "Chinatown" wannabe that comes up short in every department. Although loaded with talent on both sides of the camera, this sex-and-corruption-drenched mystery meller about a big official cover-up in postwar L.A. simply feels underachieved, as it lacks the heady atmosphere, tasty intrigue and dramatic punch the alluring premise would seem to promise. - 40
Empire
Sloppy crime epic. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
Everything looks fabulous, but the fight scenes are stagy, the dialogue stilted, the characters underdeveloped and the tone superficially cynical.
