Review of Ask the Dust (2006) by Keng. — 02 Apr 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 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.
This review of Ask the Dust (2006) was written by Keng. on 02 Apr 2006.
Ask the Dust has generally received mixed reviews.
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