I guess film festival audiences are easily pleased. A little titillation goes a long way. This cute fest is painfully slow, familiar and finally... bland. In its attempts to be daring it's just tepid. What little soul it has is attributable to Mantegna. But he's not enough to carry it. This is strictly comic book morality TV. Pass.
shareActually I "enjoyed" this movie very much.
Its a simple unspectacular and quiet story
that actually manages to make one care about the characters,
which is much more than can be said about the majority of other movies.
There are a few twists and a bit of suspense that keeps the plot moving.
Someone called it a "dark comedy" earlier and that glove probably fits well.
Also this tonality might be what was read by the original poster as "comic book morality". Morality is something that I could not find as a subject of investigation in this movie. Actually it does not care about morality at all but about humans.
Even the most stone cold killer is a being of emotions and free will, not a machine. While this message is not earth shattering new, its not transmitted often enough without the ballast of moral decorum.
I do not get the "Poor production value" comment,
really "production value" is a bonus to a movie, not its beef.