Too Late (2015)

2016 • 107 minutes

About this movie

Private investigator Mel Sampson, (John Hawkes) is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past. With this familiar setup, Too Late takes the spine of the classic private eye genre and tears it to pieces, weaving it back together into a tapestry of southern California and the menagerie of eccentric personalities and lost souls who inhabit it. From the desolate, overgrown Radio Hill to the ritzy penthouse of The Beverly Hilton, the film presents a sprawling view of Los Angeles that ranges from the undiscovered to the iconic. Featuring stunning 35mm cinematography that pushes the limits of what can be accomplished with a roll of film, and with a gut-wrenching, tour-de-force performance by John Hawkes, Too Late tells the story of a missing woman, but paints the portrait of a lost man.

Ratings and reviews

Tarantinoish style, good music, plot twist makes it worth the wild. Another good performance from John Hawkes.

Tarantino with a degree but slightly less edgy, less guns and the songs are played all the way through. Addictive cinematography, eventually.