- but not much else. I suspect one reason it leans so heavily on its well-publicized make-up gimmick is that the mystery itself is so mediocre, and makes little to no sense. Indeed, why a man with just moments to live and desperate to communicate details about a recent string of homicides would talk about them in cryptic, allusive terms is the REAL mystery of the story (and one no one even addresses in the movie!)
Again, Scott is great as the principal investigator and some of the other performances are very good also ... and Joe MacDonald's photography is characteristically wonderful ... but the game isn't worth the candle. The mystery runs out of steam around the one-hour mark, with 35 minutes still to go. And there are seemingly endless (and somewhat unsettling) scenes of fox hunts. In fact, I'm guessing that the fox hunting stuff is what drew director Huston to the project in the first place.
He should have been hunting for a better story. My score: 6/10.