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Too
Late
2015
Johnny's comments:
Too Late is a noir drama
in 5 parts with each part
taking place in real time
and in a single take.
Dorothy (Crystal Reed) is
desperate to call private
investigator Sampson (John
Hawkes) but is out of
credit on her phone. Two
small time drug dealers
(Dash Mihok and Rider
Strong) just happen to be
walking by and lend her
their phone. Dorothy calls
Sampson and he comes to
talk to her, but in the
time it takes for Sampson
to get to Dorothy, she is
murdered by a man (Brett
Jacobsen) posing as a park
ranger. At the house of
strip club owner Gordy
Lyons (Robert Forster), he
is talking to his friend
Roger (Jeff Fahey), while
Gordy's wife Janet (Vail
Bloom) is having a nervous
breakdown, which is about
to get worse when Sampson
arrives at the door
claiming to use the phone
after having a car
accident. Years ago at a
strip club, surly stripper
Jill (Dichen Lachman)
attempts to get Sampson to
buy a lap dance, but
Sampson is more interested
in Dorothy, who Jill
intensely dislikes. Back
in the present, Sampson
finds Jill running a
drive-in theatre and
outdoor boxing ring and
they 'reminisce' about old
time before Sampson
apprehends Dorothy's
murderer. Eleanor Mahler
(Joanna Cassidy) contacts
Sampson as she is looking
for her missing
granddaughter with her
aloof mother Mary (Natalie
Zea) as Eleanor found
Sampson's name in her
granddaughter's
belongings. But, he has a
surprise for Mary, while a
surprise is waiting for
him.
Too Late runs with its
one-take gimmick which
both works very well and
meanders a little too much
in the space of each 20
minute take and you'll
need a whole heap of
patience to go with it.
But, a week after
watching, I'm still
fascinated by the film,
even if it's not wholly
successful. John Hawkes is
excellent as the private
investigator dragged
kicking and screaming into
something he does not want
to be involved in, but is
neck deep in it. There's
also surprisingly good
support from Dichen
Lachman as the seen-it-all
girl (reprising her
character from the short
film Too Late is based on)
and her conversations with
Hawkes are well conceived.
A definite oddball take on
the noir genre that owes a
lot to Tarantino (I mean a
lot), one that will divide
audiences, but I gotta say
I loved it no end.
Vail
Bloom film
clip (collages below)
  
"Orphan
Black"
Tatiana
Maslany
collages below
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