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One Step Ahead (2020)
Quirky and admirable
If I try to organize my thoughts to write a review it will take me forever. So here are some quick takes.
I'm right there with dajones-4 - the film was promoted as an old school private eye movie and that alone had me hooked. The fact that they weren't recognizable actors also intrigued me.
I loved the alternate technology time frame of the film, with cell phones being available in the 60's. They set this up with a neat historical timeline at the beginning of the movie. This gave the setting of the film a Sci-fi like originality that differentiates it from others in the old-school PI drama genre.
The acting wasn't great but it also wasn't pretentious. It was like the cast saying "hey guys, this is who we are". And I appreciated that.
Even though I was tempted to switch to watching something else early on in the film, I couldn't stop watching out of curiosity of what these guys were working toward.
Im glad I watched this film and I hope you will enjoy it too. And I hope Robert James makes more films :)