Review of Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy (1945)
3/10
Slow and dull programmer
24 April 2005
Morgan Conway is the insensitive workaholic detective in this sub-par programmer. Mazurki as Splitface is good, but the rest of the cast is stagy and dull. The support is largely the same faces as in other Dick Tracy flicks, altho some play different characters.

The plot follows Tracy as he tries to find a blackmailing killer. He gets mixed up with an occultist who has dark insight into the crimes. As usual, Tracy is actually not a very good detective, and only solves the crime by chance and endlessly tailing the suspects.

The predictable plot has a fairly clever twist, altho there is some stupendously dopey dialog along the way. Who forgets someone who vows to one day kill you?
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