First-time filmmaker Kerry Conran's rapturous homage to golden-age pulp fantasies is an extraordinary technical achievement: With the exception of the actors and certain props — chairs, filing cabinets, cameras — every image was computer generated. But if it were only that, the film would be a soulless exercise in whiz-kid proficiency. Instead, it's like watching the movie that fired your childhood imagination and, rather than finding it diminished in the cold light of sophisticated adult sensibilities, discovering that it's every bit as magical as you remembered. Set in an idealized 1930s that never existed outside the movies, it revolves around the disappearance of...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG
Length:
107 mins