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In the Electric Mist

2009 · 1h 57m · Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery

IMDb 6.1 RT 54%

Skip it. This adaptation of James Lee Burke's Robicheaux novel is a sluggish mess that wastes a solid cast (Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman) and a genuinely atmospheric Louisiana setting. The convoluted plot connecting Civil War ghosts, mob intrigue, and cold cases never coheres, and the film plods along without the tension or style a decent crime thriller demands.

Plot

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. When the star of the film, Elrod Sykes, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man whose murder he witnessed 35 years earlier.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen, Kelly Macdonald

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