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A police officer dates a single mom and ends up becoming a vigilante to be the guardian of someone else’s kid.

While it’s watchable, bad neo-noir is bad.

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• 2024-07-22

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• 2:00 — Narration. With an accent.
• 6:00 — A phone that breaks in one drop. What is that an iPhone flip?

• 7:00 —

  • Los Angeles – United States
  • Explain to me how he survived.

• 8:00 —

  • The Big Sleep – (1946 movie)
  • Am I Guilty？ – (1940 movie)
  • In a Lonely Place – (1950 movie)
• 11:00 — Is this trying to be neo-noir? Cool. I still don’t know what type of movie this is. Is this action? Drama? Romance?
• 13:15 — Were there no signs of a struggle such that people couldn’t tell it was a suicide? I mean, at the very least there was a broken phone trying to dial a number.
• 18:30 — My god this narration is silly.
• 19:45 — Zombie drug – specifically alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone by the reference to the bath salt (drugs) (Bath salts)

• 23:30 —

  • Interpol
  • D.E.A.

• 24:15 — Miami – United States

  • I don’t understand the reference, for a while i thought it was with regards to Rooftop Koreans, but that’s the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
• 27:00 — Bible study (Christianity)
• 39:30 — Fine in the morning? Are they somehow knocked out all night?
• 45:30 — That eye-scar guy is a terrible overactor.

• 48:00 —

  • Did he leave his cash box open?
  • Way of the Cobra, by Sean Kanan
• 48:15 — See Silk Road (marketplace), although you will note this says “Silk Roads” plural.
• 48:45 — There’s no need to cover a monitor, windows-l (L) will lock the screen on Windows.

• 49:45 —

  • Taco
  • Food truck
  • And he said “shwa–” which makes me wonder if he wanted to say shawarma.

• 50:30 —

  • Wine cooler
  • “Taki”(?) Soju

• 53:30 —

  • Drone
  • Delivery drone
• 59:15 — Yeah, the kid should have been told what happened, and right away.

• —

  • Concussion
  • Rib fracture
• 1:19:30 — Why do guns run out of ammo so easily?

• 1:23:15

  • Ketamine
  • Veterinarian
• 1:24:30 — Teddy bear
• 1:25:15 — Oh my god this is so out of place.
• 1:26:00 — Wasn’t he shot?
• 1:30:15 — Shoot him when he pulls the gun…
• 1:32:00 — That’s what you get for tossing aside your perfectly good femme-cover.
• 1:32:45 — She must have been so good looking.

• 1:42:15 — I was expecting the guardian to notice the flirting and decide to settle down right there. That would have given the flirting and phone number exchange meaning and cemented a nice happier ending.