Artfully filmed (almost overly artfully filmed with lots of flashy camera movements swooping in and out of various apartment buildings like a fly on the wall--its very show-off-ish but it does draw your attention) movie starting off about a seemingly agoraphobic apartment manager played by a very wary (and uncharacteristically passive) James Caan who's trying to deal with his everyday life being annoyed by his various tenants. Apparently the only one of them who actually seems to like him is a masseuse played by Jennifer Tilly, every other tenant either loathes him or is actively trying to harm him--Genevive Bujold plays a woman who is apparently making a habit of asking the cops to investigate his apt insisting that he stole something or other from her. (The cops themselves are like "yeah unfortunately we gotta question you again here") Anyways Tilly's husband is found dead in the garbage shoot, and before too long another body pops up, and then a third body, and we just might have a serial killer stalking the tenants of the building here. Caan who is increasingly feeling useless as a man (it doesn't help that he can't bring himself to exit the building--he has serious tremors just bringing the dumpster where the garbage bags lands from the garbage shoot around for the garbage truck to pick up.) takes it upon himself to try and solve the murders. This all leads to a somewhat unexpected twist at the end that i have to admit i wasn't at all expecting. The movie holds your attention well enough, but I didn't think it was especially good, although Caan it has to be said is trying really hard, and i actually think manages to pull off the role decently enough (but it is hard to buy him as a weakling who can't even defend himself against the ravings of a crazy woman as opposed to well the usual alpha James Caan persona) Anyways it was all right, but not all that good really.
Review of Jericho Mansions
