Time for a short effective entry ... "The Big Bang" is a small movie, but with some big names on the poster. It got a small score with the critics, but it has a big knot of tangled threads resulting in a story that you can at least call catchy. The movie's rated R (= packs enough sex and violence to sell) but that's not the reason. It seems hard for me to coherently mix into a subject for a noir movie: corrupted cops, the Russian mafia, blood diamonds, quantum physics, love stories, natural disasters, philosophy, multiple personalities and an eccentric millionaire, all starting with a classic missing person case = the movie's context setting. More precisely, a private eye (Antonio Banderas) is hired by a former life convict, miraculously freed from jail, to find his mail girlfriend, who apparently doesn't seem to exist. And from this we somehow end up in the middle of a particle acceleator (oh yes, the quantum physics part is quite consistent ... at least quantity wise). Indeed, the movie is not perfect, gets a bit over the top with the "noir" stuff ... from the poster to the camera work (although strictly visual speaking looks ok) + of course the script (although here too we can close an eye for some witty punchlines). Overall I can admire the way this salad served in the first half gets a meaning in the second. And it's not because a hot scene in the middle giving a crash course of particles theory in an 18+ :) It's just a weird chaotic story that strangely works ... or simply a mix of some shallow science into dumb action, just enough to result in a watchable guilty pleasure.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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