Russell Crowe Struggles To Forget a Derivative Mystery in Sleeping Dogs

It occupies an unpleasant netherworld between a heightened, stylized noir and a more grounded drama. Our Sleeping Dogs review:

An estimated six to seven million people suffer from Alzheimer’s in the U.S. alone, and if movies are to be believed, a substantial portion of them are further burdened with the responsibility of solving a murder mystery or closing out their contract-killing career. Just a week after Michael Keaton struggled to set his affairs in order in the somber hitman drama, playing dementia-afflicted ex-cop Roy Freeman, who re-opens an old murder case he once considered settled but no longer fully recalls.

Roy’s home is covered with sticky notes containing various reminders, instructions and other information, some of it potentially redundant: Why would frozen food with illustrations and cooking instructions printed on its box also need a sticky note repeating those instructions? If Roy is so far gone that he can’t read pre-existing instructions, should he be working a microwave in the first place? The most likely explanation is that Roy suffers from the rarestrain of Alzheimer’s, which is...

The idea of a detective re-investigating a case with unwillingly fresh eyes has a lot of potential, as Roy attempts to reconstruct others’ memories, which may intersect with his own, and sort through the mistakes he may have made along the way. He’s essentially becoming reacquainted with an old self he may no longer care to know, and Crowe plays this with the kind of gravity that justifies a star’s paycheck – I believe the formal term is Neesoning.

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