Review of Sam's Song (1969) by Trent M — 24 Nov 2007

Not much to recommend in this film unless you are a DeNiro fanatic. His scenes were from a much earlier film that was never completed and used mostly as flashbacks. This movie begins as some kind of low mystery film and then for about the last 30 minutes tries to be "noir" with the brother speaking like a hardboiled detective all of a sudden.

This actually does improve the movie a bit, but why didn't they play the whole film like this? There is a strange scene where DeNiro's character enacts a shoot-out on a beach and mows himself down about 20 times in dreamy slow-motion.

It could have been better handled, but if you want to check it out, by all means, do so.