Crescent City

I started watching this for the presence of the ever great actor Terrence Howard and Alec Baldwin. Terrence Howard still oozes cool, but Alec Baldwin is phoning his performance in.

This is not a B-movie, but it is cop movie without cojones, without soul. It's just going through the motions of a below average predictable, boring cop story we have already seen a kazillion times before.

NOT thrilling. NOT suspenseful. NOT original. It's a total nothing burger, that is incredibly tedious to watch.

These actors deserve a better script and a much better direction and production. Definitely to be avoided.

I expected more and knew in the first few minutes it would be a flop. Bad acting, bad story and direction. Alec's acting was pretty much the same. Terrence Howard and Esai Moralas's acting was not good at all. I paid for this movie and tried my best to give it a chance but felt I wasted money on this flop. I think they should've passed on signing up, I guess once you become older it's hard to get those perfect scripts or phone calls from your top directors and producers. Nicky Whelan's acting was not good as well. I could expect her to be in this type of movie. Wished she didn't do the whole plastic party on her face, it truly shows and the bad acting made it worse.

This is a horribly written film that is not even campy worth watching and wastes a mostly decent cast. The plot, if we can call it that, is better understood as a drunken improve of frat brothers who think they are improving Silence of the Lambs.

Rather than actually develop a story line, the movie meanders from one pathetically obvious misdirection to the next, until the musical chairs of potential suspects haphazardly lands on one character. They film the pathetically tries to backfill the character's story to cobble together an underwhelming explanation of the why the killer would engage in series of crimes.

The best part of the film is that it ended and that I didn't buy it.

Shame on everyone involved.

Don't actors read the script before they sign up for a project? I can't believe actual famous people with viable careers volunteered for this and weren't under duress.

The basic plot is like someone was playing police thriller serial killer mad libs. They took pages from The Wire, from Se7en and a dozen other good movies, threw them in a basket and the first hundred pages they grabbed out became the final draft script. I have seen better from Eastern Europe.

If True Detective were a Hyundai Genesis, this is a 1989 Hyundai Excel. Remember those?

There's no logical explanation as to why the people are doing the things they are doing or why they even still have jobs?

But in the end, this hot mess is to absurd that it's actually entertaining. If they hadn't taken themselves seriously, this could have been Scream.

It's not an Oscar movie but it has an interesting intriguing side. I like movies that make us think without ever knowing who the killer is. The casting is interesting. Terrence Howard is excellent and I like Esai Morales, we never know if he's the good guy or the bad guy.

The direction is adequate.

On the other hand, the story is a little predictable even if the movie always makes us think to find out who the culprit is. The religious context is original. I don't understand why some people rate it so badly. There are much worse movies than this one. Maybe the expectation is too great.

And stop blaming Balwin because of the tragic incident in his last movie, it could happen to anyone. This movie passes the time on a boring and rainy day.