Let it be known that I would pay handsomely to see Denzel and Don Cheadle in a movie together. They were great.
I'm almost sorry it took me this long to finally watch it. It was far from what I expected. I saw the title--"Devil in a Blue Dress"--and I saw Denzel as well as a white woman in a blue dress and my mind went to some suped up version of "Jungle Fever." It was far from that and it was stupendous.
It's 1948 in Los Angeles and a man named Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins (Denzel Washington) was hard up for money after losing his job. He got hired by a man named Dewitt Albright (Tom Sizemore) to find a woman named Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals). It seemed simple enough, except it wasn't. It turned into a murder mystery whodunit for the ages as Ezekiel found himself on the wrong end of some beatings and the patsy for two dead bodies. He has to find Daphne and whatever she knows to save his own hide.
This movie just got better and better as it went along. The mystery became more salacious and once Easy's sidekick, Mouse (Don Cheadle), entered the picture the whole ball game changed. The movie was a throwback to the noir films of the 40's and 50's when the gumshoe would narrate the story. Of course now we have the benefit of color and more colorful language and behavior. This was a well written, well acted, well directed piece that any murder mystery fan would want to have in their collection.
I'm almost sorry it took me this long to finally watch it. It was far from what I expected. I saw the title--"Devil in a Blue Dress"--and I saw Denzel as well as a white woman in a blue dress and my mind went to some suped up version of "Jungle Fever." It was far from that and it was stupendous.
It's 1948 in Los Angeles and a man named Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins (Denzel Washington) was hard up for money after losing his job. He got hired by a man named Dewitt Albright (Tom Sizemore) to find a woman named Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals). It seemed simple enough, except it wasn't. It turned into a murder mystery whodunit for the ages as Ezekiel found himself on the wrong end of some beatings and the patsy for two dead bodies. He has to find Daphne and whatever she knows to save his own hide.
This movie just got better and better as it went along. The mystery became more salacious and once Easy's sidekick, Mouse (Don Cheadle), entered the picture the whole ball game changed. The movie was a throwback to the noir films of the 40's and 50's when the gumshoe would narrate the story. Of course now we have the benefit of color and more colorful language and behavior. This was a well written, well acted, well directed piece that any murder mystery fan would want to have in their collection.