Review of In the Electric Mist (2009) by Keith T — 12 Sep 2009
Lt. Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) from New Iberia is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie "Baby Feet" Balboni (John Goodman), now a co- producer of Hollywood director Michael Goldmans (John Sayles) Civil War film shot in the surroundings of New Iberia. When the star of the movie Elrod Sykes (Peter Sarsgard), is pulled over by Robicheaux for drunk driving, he starts babbling about a corpse he found in the Atchafalaya Swamp-the corpse of a black man Dave had seen murdered 35 years before. Robicheaux finds himself involved in a mix of events that forces him to take desperate measures.
This is a very very ordinary thriller I would say. The story brings nothing new to genre and it is not a very intriguing tale anyways, the actors are on halfspeed, the editing is a bit wishy washy and Tommy Lee Jones is playing THE SAME ROLE he has been playing for the past 10 years. "In the Electric Mist" is a disapointment. The hard fact.
This review of In the Electric Mist (2009) was written by Keith T on 12 Sep 2009.
In the Electric Mist has generally received mixed reviews.
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