In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.
It gets your attention, makes you laugh and passes the time for a while.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
A minor skid for Donovan is sure-driving for too many others.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
It pretends to be a psychological-political melodrama but plays like the work of a dilettante; that is, the work of someone who wants to make movies, has the means to make them, but doesn't, as yet, know what he wants to make them about.