IMDB score of 6.0!?

You've got to be kidding!!!
I just watched it and found it awful, boring, way too sloooow, such a waste of time.
If I could have rated it zero stars, I would have done it.
I rather recommend "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" which has much more to do with the aftermaths of 9/11 than "The Missing Person".
Such a promising plot and then to see how the indie movie director messed it up was quite frustrating :(.

Wouldn't call it great, but it's certainly a good one - a nice throwback to old noirs that is both retro as well as a satirical take on the classic gumshoe mythos in a vein quite similar to stuff like The Long Goodbye, The Big Lebowski and Inherent Vice. It's got good, mellow, boozy vibes and a great sardonic sense of humor flowing over the melancholy undercurrents (it does get a bit sentimental at times, but that's no big misstep). And, of course, there's no getting around Michael Shannon who's the one holding everything together with yet another utterly compelling performance - he's almost constantly very funny in a remarkably subtle, subdued manner, never overplaying his hand yet always registering. And it's cool that they made his character a full-on alcoholic, sort of taking things to their logical conclusion (Philip Marlowe was downing drinks on a regular basis, but never got fully loaded while attempting to be on the job).

Btw it's worth noting that Shannon never threw a single punch or fired a single shot in the entire movie.



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