This the story of a young man who gets mixed up a schemer and some not so nice people in a tale of murder and corruption in a sea side city.
I'm not certain if this is supposed to play as a comedy but I couldn't help but laugh at the over done nastiness done by and to the various characters. These are a bunch of people who over the course of two hours reveal themselves not to be anyone we can root for.
While there are cases when we root for the the bad guy (Patricia Highsmith Ripley novels for example) you generally need to populate them in among people we like. Here there really isn't anyone we like and after a while I really didn't want to watch.
Then again, as I inferred above, I don't think the film gets the tone right, with the result I wasn't sure if I was supposed to laughing or be horrified. I laughed for the wrong reasons.
While not bad, I'm not certain it really works.
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