The series’s ambient preoccupation with death is foregrounded more than ever before with this film’s main dramatic subplot.
The film’s insistence on keeping the stakes low throughout is probably its key strength.
The film’s use of scale to drive home the absurdity of its characters’ actions recalls Werner Herzog’s tragicomic existentialism.
Tukel’s film doesn’t live up to the promise of its fleet-footed opening.
The film evinces neither the visceral pleasures of noir nor the precision to uncover deeper thematic resonances.
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