Review – The Public Eye

A real biography of Weegee would have been a lot more interesting. Instead we get a tabloid crime photographer (Joe Pesci) with coffee table art book aspirations, but we're stuck watching helplessly as he wends his way through a spectacularly uninteresting, Chinatown-esque murder mystery. Every once in awhile a line or two will hint that this was originally intended to be a better movie. However, the intelligent stuff is buried deep under fake noir nonsense. Mildly amusing