Dark Crimes (2016)

While this movie had a lot of potential, Carrey's portrayal of Tadek was incredibly lacking. He seemed disconnected from the role and his acting fell short. While some might enjoy the movie, I found it incredibly boring an painful to watch.

Fmovies: Disgraced Polish Officer Tadek (Jim Carrey) wants to investigate the murder of a slain policeman to prove himself as he had botched a previous investigation. He is so obsessed with this case that he ignores his family. He finds similarities between the murder and details found in author Krystov Kozlov's (Marton Csokas) novel because the details of the actual murder were never released to the public, but Tadek sees them in the novel. He believes he has his man.

This will be very slow going. In the beginning, we see a lot of nudity when scenes are shown in the sex club that Koslov goes to from time to time. After those scenes we no longer see any frontal nudity. . Talking about a sex club where girls were also tortured would have sufficed, but the Director wanted more. See?

There are very few dialogues throughout especially from Tadek. As Tadek, Carrey uses a Polish accent, but I have heard better as he does it with almost no accent. Not good. And Carrey as Tedak sports a beard that makes him almost unrecognizable. I did wish that Carrey as TAdek spoke more about the case so we knew what he was thinking. Didn't happen too often.

The two main characters alongside Carrey are excellent. There is Charlotte Gainsbourg as Kasia, who is Kozlov's girlfriend; and then there is Marton Csokas as Koslov and he gives off a such commanding presence, I kind of wished he was the good guy.

I have always said that comedians have timing down perfectly when they go into drama. Jim Carrey has that in here. Kudos.

There will be 2-twists later on. The first one almost surprised me, but the last one caught me completely by surprise. Will it surprise you? (7/10)

Violence: No. Sex: Yes. Nudity: Yes. Humor: No. Language: Yes. Rating: B

One of the few films with American ties that depicts Europe the way it is. Watch it, don't be fooled by those claiming it is boring. In fact, it is quite the opposite.

Dark Crimes fmovies. I had heard of this film 2 years ago had the privilege of seeing it, Its A dark story of a case consumimg a detictive (Carey) becoming obsessed with the truth.The movie is well shot the acting is good. Great to see Jim Carrey sinking his teeth into a great role

This film had a nice feel to it and was nicely shot. However the story came across as disjointed and didn't make a lot of sense. It was interesting to see Jim Carey in such a bleak role however to me it came across as a very staged performance - And I'm not sure if the accent was a good idea as toward the end of the film it tended to go from Polish, to Northern Irish to American all in one scene.

I remember reading the article this film claims to tell the story of and went back and re-read it on the New Yorker website today. Its an interesting story which this film strays from dramatically, inventing in the whole 'sex club' sub-plot and completely changing the ending. Can't help but feel that in this case, the truth is much more entertaining than the fiction.

As said I enjoyed the direction, locations and cinematography but the rest of the film was a chore.

Watching this film I first off have to say I loved the way Jim Carrey immersed himself into his role. Some people only like him when he is playing humorous roles, but I feel that his serious rolls such as this one (and others like The Number 23) are well portrayed by him. I felt that the film had a well developed corruption murder crime story line to it. I was able to foreshadow the ending a little, but it still was a good film that I thoroughly enjoyed it. The portrayal of Tadek, by Carrey was well developed and showed human character flaws that were subtle but well intertwined into the story. I love the way that David Grann, (the writer of the original story the movie is based on) ended the story with a marginal twist like adding a twist of lime to a cocktail after you have already drank half the glass and ate the olive. This film is not for everyone, but I do recommend giving it a watch, if for nothing else other than seeing Carrey explore a roll away from humor again.