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Where the Truth Lies Reviews
Big Egoyan fan here since the 1980s with my favorite being Speaking Parts. This elaborate character study/mystery never gels and wastes many good actors.
The butler did it. Oh yeah, and Colin Firth's character tries to screw Kevin Bacons character. Have fun.
I wanted to like this film but it was kind of a garbled soap opera/mystery. What I liked about it was: the lush, string-heavy score, the way the camera crept around magisterially entering rooms, and Colin Firth's ultra-modern Los Angeles home, played by the Stahl House. It had a little sexy fun here and there but the plot was confusing and it didn't help that it had a bunch of avant garde narrative techniques like frames and flashbacks.
This got my head spinning about half way through as the plot was to heavy even Poirot would have trouble working it all out. I stuck with it and there was a little twist at the end with Alison Lohman playing Miss Marples. Odd scene with Colin Firth trying to enter Kevin Bacons rear passage in a weird threesome. Bacon didn't like that. I read Alison Lohman took some stick for her performance but she was fine. It passed me by , I forgot this soon after watching. What were that duo Firth and Bacon? Like Ant and Dec? I dunno really.
Potentially "exciting" for repressed US audiences, but thoroughly dull for the rest of the world. I didn't care about any of the self-indulgent characters or what happened to them. Didn't even care about the blackmailing "victim". Waste of time.
Written and directed by Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter (1997), Felicia's Journey (1999) and Devil's Knot (2013)), and adapted from Rupert Holmes' 2003 novel. This dark erotic thriller is heavily inspired by the plotting of Citizen Kane (1941), although the plot here is quite unbeliveable and despite the best efforts of the two inspired leads, despite it painting a labyrinthine whodunnit, it feels derivative. In 1957, entertainers Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) are at the top of their game, and after hosting a marathon 39-hour-long polio telethon in Miami, head to a hotel in New Jersey where student Maureen O'Flaherty (Rachel Blanchard) is found dead in a bathtub. Even though they had nothing to do with the death, Lanny and Vince dissolve their partnership. 15 years later, writer Karen O'Connor (Alison Lohman) has accepted an offer to ghostwrite Vince's autobiography, but she gets sent chapters from a book that Lanny has been writing, and it's though this that she discovers what really happened to Maureen O'Flaherty. It's a good idea for a film, but it flits too much between 1957 and 1972, and the scenes with Firth and Bacon doing comedy schtick as the two entertainers is the best, and it should have focused more on that, and despite Egoyan's best efforts, as he relishes on tales of dark human nature and desires, it doesn't feel right.
Normally I love Colin Firth, but this film just doesn't make it, perhaps because Alison Lohman is soooooo bad.
It will keep you involved throughout, but does not offer much to give any praise, its worth checking out though.
Que mala banda sonora, que ambientación tan débil, parece una de esas series de detectives de los 80. Mucho contenido sexual. Y el final bueno, digno de hacer un capítulo de CSI únicamente.
Ein gut gespielter Thriller mit einigen erotischen Aspekten. Leider fehlt es an dem Film an Fahrt und Spannung. Man trödelt ein bisschen herum und es geht lange, bis man zum Punkt kommt. Aber so ein Film zwischendurch, ist nicht schlecht.
It shows how Kevin Bacon can do both Comedy and Serious Acting. However; I like the actors of this better in other movies.
A rather intricate detective story about a girl reporter who tries to discover the truth about the lives and friendships between two show people who fall victims to blackmail. The reversed plot around a murder makes the psychological journey through the traps of the protagonist's character particularly pleasurable; each episode giving new details of the killing, but keeping the entire truth about the murder concealed almost until the last minute of the film. The film is heavily erotic, too much for a good detective story. Also, it is somehow reminiscent of the Great Gatsby in the meaning, the protagonist comes clean from all the blackmail tagged by other characters and conceived by the observer.
Unexpected. Very. Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth and and girl in a threesome romp with murder, lobsters, New Jersey mafia and a keen reporter as side kicks. Goes to show you that keeping an open mind with regard Kevin Bacon might give you a fun film night! who knew?
Egoyan gets no love from either the critics or the fans for this work but it is in my opinion one of his strongest works. It is sexy without becoming erotic for the sake of being erotic and deals with complicated relationships. Despite what it is mentioned in other reviews, it works!
You really wish this was a better movie!
Unfortunately, the talented and very pretty Alison Lohman is immersed into a plot heavy, cheap looking film that continually trips over its own feet.
"Where the Truth Lies is spellbinding, explosive and Scandalous." I've been following Alison Lohman's Career ever since her debut in White Orleander Co-starring Michelle Phiefer. Over the years her choice in roles became more sparce. However she's raised her inner desire for more sophisticated and jaw dropping roles. 'Where the Truth Lies' is no excpetion, it's a perfect example of how far an actor will go inorder to get the 'wow' factor.