![]() It’s a classic noir murder mystery setup: a down-on-his-luck schmuck lured by a gorgeous lost love into a once-in-a-lifetime payday that will put him on easy street forever. Karen’s been married for some time to gazillionaire Frank ( Jason Clarke), who huffs and puffs and scowls around the edges of the story, little aware that Karen has come to offer Dill $10 million to kill him. On this fine day, Dill gets his hook into a huge fish he’s tried to reel in three times before, but once again it gets away, giving the man something to obsess about until next they meet.ĭill has a nice, relaxed thing going with local beauty Constance (Diane Lane) until a vision from out of the past materializes in the comely form of Karen ( Anne Hathaway), Dill’s ex-wife and mother of their teen son, Patrick. Well into middle age, Dill skippers the Serenity, a tourist fishing boat out of sleepy Plymouth Island off the Florida coast (the film, thanks to local financing, was entirely shot in Mauritius in the Indian Ocean). When it comes to playing that game, Baker Dill ( Matthew McConaughey) hasn’t figured out the rules yet, much less come up with a way to win. But if the point is that life is but a game, we’ve heard that one before, and better told. ![]() ![]() Too self-consciously tricky and never in the least convincing, this misfire from the sometimes inspired writer-director Steven Knight ( Locke the script for Eastern Promises) knowingly brandishes 1940s-style murder-melodrama and femme fatale tropes in a steamy setting populated by louche characters. An attempt at a contemporary tropical noir, Serenityleaves its talented cast stranded on the beach. ![]()
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