I'm going to annoy everybody here by writing a middle-of-the-road review. I know that Gumshoe is a movie that you either love or hate, but that's me – eccentric to the last. So let me start out by saying that Gumshoe is a confused and confusing movie, full of odd characters who all talk doubletalk. True, despite all the talk, the movie moves fast – too fast in fact because the super-rapid pace makes the plot impossible to follow. (Maybe that was the whole idea. You've got a plot that doesn't make too much sense, so you "move it along so fast that nobody notices!" (To quote Michael Curtiz). Determinedly TV-style direction doesn't help either. Nevertheless, the movie most certainly has plenty of atmosphere. For me, at least three or four of the scenes actually did work and have certainly stayed in my memory.
Review of Gumshoe
