Ask the Dust

Paramount Vantage | Release Date: March 10, 2006

7.6	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 40 Ratings

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KenG.Apr 3, 2006

The irony here is that Towne is well know as a highly talented scriptwriter, yet the biggest problem with this movie is that much of it was terribly written. Basically, every single scene between Farrell and Hayek, for the first 2/3rds of The irony here is that Towne is well know as a highly talented scriptwriter, yet the biggest problem with this movie is that much of it was terribly written. Basically, every single scene between Farrell and Hayek, for the first 2/3rds of movie should have been thrown out and rewritten. It does improve over last 3rd when Farrell and Hayek come across in their scenes together as real people, instead of just mouthpieces for the writer's idea of hardboiled dialogue. But by this time it is too little, too late. Because movie squanders so much in movie's first 2/3rd's, it also never really explores what is was like to have an interracial romance in 1930's L.A. (Which, I gather, it wanted to to). Medina is very good, though.… Expand

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FredD.Nov 17, 2007

Hard to watch. stilted and lifeless. too much dialog simply states and restates the obvious. looked good though. the actors are at the mercy of this anachronistic stuff. Ugh.

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