Death And The Compass - Movie Review

Rating: 3 out of 5

The director of Repo Man takes an Argentinian short story by Jorge Luis Borges and brings it to the screen with his curious style. Surrealistic and considerably detailed considering its low budget, the cryptic tale may give you a headache if the jarring editing and fish-eye lenses don't. Peter Boyle is always fun, here as a detective in a city filled with nothing but cops and robbers and few people in between, but Cox's tale isn't nearly the goofy thrill that Repo Man was.

Facts and Figures

Year: 1996

Run time: 86 mins

In Theaters: Wednesday 5th August 1992

Budget: $3.5M

Production compaines: Estudios Churubusco Azteca, KHB Productions, PSC, Together Brothers Productions

Reviews

Contactmusic.com: 3 / 5

IMDB: 6.0 / 10

Cast & Crew

Director: Alex Cox

Producer: Lorenzo O'Brien

Screenwriter: Alex Cox

Starring: Peter Boyle as Erik Lonnrot, Christopher Eccleston as Alonso Zunz, Miguel Sandoval as Treviranus, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez as Ms.Espinoza / Harlequin, Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. as Blot

Also starring: Pedro Armendariz Jr., Alex Cox