Review of In the Electric Mist (2009) by Ana B — 23 Feb 2014

Crime movie following the endeavours of Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux, based in the novel by the same title of James Lee Burke. Dave is indeed a busy sheriff as he has to deal with corrupt businessmen, the discovery of a long dead negro corpse, the violent death of two local prostitutes and the colourful production crew of a new movie that is being shot in his town, Iberia, still torn in the aftermath of Katrina.

Dave has to navigate through a maze of half truths and innuendos while struggling with his personal life: he is a recovering alcoholic, he has narrowly survived two attempts of assassination and occasionally has visions of him having conversations with a confederate officer, General Hood, which offers him advice and tries to help him in his quest to discover the guilty part in this complex plot.

I really like detective films and this one is not bad at all, it is a bit hard sometimes to follow all the threads of the story especially when it is a fast paced movie and characters have that strong southern accent. But indeed has all the right elements a clever and charismatic detective, an apparently unsolvable mystery and the unhelpful town people. The characters are a bit flat without much development but indeed the plot didn't require it.