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‘Crescent City’ Review: Overplotted Thriller Sustains Interest Primarily with Yeoman Performances by Well-Cast Leads
Terrence Howard and Esai Morales play Little Rock cops with dark secrets investigating a series of grisly murders in 'Crescent City.'
On the other hand, they might be happy to find that their hometown is not represented at all in this overplotted and instantly disposable drama, a bland gumbo of serial killer tropes, internal affairs investigation, Satanic sex addicts and buddy-cop shoot-’em-up stuff. That captain (Alec Baldin, picking up an easy paycheck) grows so impatient with their progress in tracking down a serial killer terrorizing the community that he adds a new member to their team: Jaclyn Waters (Nicky Whelan, as credible as she can be under the circumatances), a beautiful Australian-born cop identified as a recent transfer from Tulsa. The plot has something to do with sexual escapades connected to Sutter’s neighborhood church, something else to do with an extramarital affair involving two characters who periodically appear to be prime suspects, and still something else to do with a traumatized youngster who grew up to be a brilliantly disguised executioner of unfaithful husbands and other fornicators.
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