"Dark Crimes"

When we watch a film that is based or inspired by actual events, that's not to say Hollywood doesn't take liberties with the screenplay. In "Remember The Titans" when a brick is thrown through Denzel Washington's character's window in actuality it was an old toilet but Disney decided to change that to a brick to "clean up" the story. Yet when you come across a story worth telling, one that is dark and twisted sometimes it needs no real changes because truth is often stranger than fiction.

Tadek (Jim Carrey in one of his rare dramatic roles) is a Poland police officer who has a chip on his shoulder because of an unsolved case involving a man assassinated in a strange manner. Finding connections to a underground sex club and hair-raising similarities written in a controversial book as to how this man was executed. Turning his attention to the author Krystov Kozlow and his girlfriend Kasia (Charlotte Gainsbourg) who is one of the sex workers. As Tadek starts to peel back the layers to find the center of the truth, he becomes immersed into the dark world and his determination for seeking justice will be tested, provided he can make it out of the darkness alive.

Dark and disturbing, yet surprisingly intriguing. This story inspired by the 2008 article "True Crimes-A Postmodern Murder Mystery" by David Grann takes you into the underbelly of sex, greed and violence that happens in the dark side of our society and how it can take the once noble and just and ensnare them pulling them down with little hope they will come out unscathed. A four and a half G.M.Star retelling that will leave an impression on its audience giving them darker look on the world.

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"Dark Crimes" is available at Redbox and where movies are sold.