Any movie with a plot about a wealthy pervert paying one million dollars to pornographers to produce a 1992 snuff movie with a jumpy and grainy hand held 8mm movie camera should be an early warning that this film must be as defective as the cameraman (with obvious advanced Parkinson's disease) who operated the camera while the victim was being killed. The movie had a horror comic book style with its background of Gotham City slums, retro-technology and cartoonish characters. The bad guys have adopted sleeze as a total life style, i.e., they not only have sleezy jobs, they wear sleezy clothes, decorate their offices with junk store discounts, and prefer to live in urban slums. Tom Welles (Nicholas Cage) is a private eye who is able to learn the identity of the snuff film victim with a lot of improbable good luck. He plods through the film with the energy of someone with low blood pressure! The film is neither disturbing or exciting. It is boring and stupid!
