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Easy tiger, it ain't that bad. Yes, this Ellroy wannabe has many a convoluted flaw and contains the most bizarre male lead casting decision ever, concidering the talents of the rest of the ensemble (you have to admire Steve Coogan's relentless attempts at a film career, he still keeps hammering away at it, regardless of how many times his films simply die abrupt deaths...).

But The Alibi gets there, slowly but surely. It's incredibly well-shot on an unremarkable budget, the script while appearing determined to tie itself into a knot ends up more of a bow and repeated viewings allow for that appreciation of the little nuances of everyones performance (step forward, James Marsden, Selma Blair and, as always, Sam Elliot). And can we mention the cast again? It was only this visit to IMDB that revealed Jon Polito (as the 'blink-and-you-miss-him' Photographer) and Jerry O'Connell (the cheating Businessman) right at the beginning of the film. Jon Polito! Jerry O'Connell!! In navels of a cameo! Whoever the casting director was for this flick, he / she must have called in every favour and dirty Polaroid in the book to land this lot (what was it, a quiet month in LA??)

And its frankly always a pleasure to see Deborah Kara Unger in anything, even in yet another cameo in this movie. (Why, oh why, is she yet another mindnumbingly attractive woman who is utterly dismissed as a very talented actor, simply because she IS mindnumbingly attractive?? Or the "Michelle Pfieffer Syndrome", as I call it. I'm looking at you too, Ms. Romijn...) So, don't dismiss The Alibi too harshly - it has lots of little charms wich add up to not the total waste of time 'comzept' will tell you...

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I have to say, I'm willing to see this movie, and just put it at the top of my Q, purely based on the fact that Henry Rollins is in it. That's enough for me. I'll watch anything that man makes. I have a bit of a man crush on him, I guess.

This is by no means the most amazing movie I have ever watched but it is well worth the time it took to stream from Netflix. I think it's oddly funny in a very dry humor what a tangled web we weave sort of way.

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Don't bother replying. OP has posted like 5 times on different boards and basically to say the same thing every time. I think he/she is genetically bored.

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