This movie is steamy. It feels like old time noir, and thats a great compliment. The story is of a psychiatrist who goes to a bar to seek out a mysterious man named Mike. He has threatened one of her patients that he will kill him if he doesn't pay him back. The shrink finds out that Mike is a con-man, and a very good one, and she gets trapped in his world. This movie has the effect of a stopper being taken out of a full sink, it pulls you in until you're an empty shell--shocked and in absolute admiration. This movie has a lot of skill in it, the cinematography is gorgeously subtle and the dialogue, oh, the dialogue is some of the best that has every appeared in a film. The director, David Mamet, writes plays and screenplays, this was his first film, and what a debut! Characters return to their words: I'm looking for Mike. You're looking for Mike? Yes, Mike, I'm looking for him. And the actors convey this language like they are the only ones on earth who can speak in. If you look closely, the entire film is a con, just like the characters, just when you think one thing is the truth, it tricks you, and you fall into it's trap again. But this is no gimicky film, it is masterful. It does what any great movie does and makes you need to see it again, to beat out the characters in the movie. I realize I have not said much about the actual plot of the film. Too bad, the experience is one I cannot spoil and I envy anyone seeing it for the first time.
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