it's a ridiculous and mostly boring hardboiled thriller; It's a preposterous plot, with a damp-squib ending; It's a film with no energy, not much pace and few signs of life. It's exhausting to watch
George Gallo's dull, Southern neo-noir is a series of genre clichés featuring a noticeably bored cast led by John Travolta, and a painfully overwrought story
"The Poison Rose" is another dull whodunit nobody wants to see; The plot of this dull, aimless, motion-free whodunit plods on, intermittently laced with a line screenwriter Richard Salvatore, adapting his own novel, considers clever
by Cath Clarke [The Guardian ]
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