"A night of reckoning by a hoodlum in his haunted former home is a more sober and remote Freudian farrago than one expects from Guy Maddin." - Bill Weber

Mostly senseless and thus free of impact. The zaniness of its content is far from justified. The film's connections to Homer's Odyssey don't illuminate either work. The narration doesn't work, nor does the overbearing score. Dialogue frequently gets lost in the sound mix. The camerawork and editing is overenthusiastic. I could go on. It doesn't make sense to me that someone with twenty-five years of filmmaking experience would do something like this.

Initially, my reaction to this was an untranscribable groan, but...it's worthy of more than that. Some nice b&w noir cinematography, some good noirish lines, solid performances--namely Jason Patric and Udo Kier--and Jason Staczek's fantastic score. But the story is an incoherent mash-up of film noir and ghost story, achingly dull and totally lacking in chills or suspense. It's clearly the film Guy Maddin wanted to make, but why he wanted to make it baffles me. This is my first Guy Maddin film.

subat 12, if2012, reha erdem ile ayni salonda & Keyhole, Maddin sinemasinin tum gorsel ozelliklerini barindiriyor. Yine fazla kisisel ama bu sefer fazla cok fazla yorucu. Bu film, Maddin'in icindeki her seyi kusmus oldugu bir film. Bir ev icinde kalbe yapilan yolculuk-metafor bombardimani. Bas agritici.