Birmingham Brown sucks!
I am shocked when I see people consistently talk about how much they like Bumbleham Brown in their reviews. He's awful! To make it worse, he's always teamed up with a Chan offspring that's usually more lame than he is.
Dark Alibi was excruciating watching the dumbnamic duo performing their antics. It makes no sense...why are they there? The first five minutes of the movie is very dark and moody. Later, at the hotel, there is an attempt to make it a sinister place where nefarious people live. The comic relief totally obliterates all of these efforts. How about more character development, especially between the framed man's daughter and her prison guard boyfriend. He just pops out of nowhere and we never learn anything about him or the history of the relationship.
Could you imagine Citizen Kane with this kind comic relief. How about Cape Fear? When Max Cady is trying to kill and/or rape the counselor's family, we could cut to a 15 minute segment of a "negro" fumbling around with a fishing line, trying to catch a fish, and then falling into the water.
Death to comic relief, death to Birmingham Brown!