It’s sorta comforting to see Brian De Palma up to his old tricks – over-dramatized thriller, lots of split-screen work – after all these years. A beautiful criminal (Rebecca Romijn) double-crosses her partners, makes off with millions in stolen jewels and assumes the identity of a woman who just happens to look just like her and just happens to commit suicide in front of her. Years later she’s managed to establish a new life for herself, but her old friends are still out to even the score. Eventually it devolves into a silly bit of nonsense about our heroine seducing Antonio Banderas into doing whatever she wants (shades of Double Indemnity, a clip of which adorns the opening credits). And don’t even get me started on the ending. The direction is over-wrought to the point of weirdness, often leaving me wondering if De Palma is serious or merely lampooning his earlier work. Mildly amusing
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