After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for some payback to regain the two years he has lost. He is hired by Mrs. Malroux to fake the kidnapping of her stepdaughter (the daughter of a dying millionaire). He discovers that he is being set up on multiple levels and will soon face a longer prison sentence if he does not prove the truth to the police.... (Full plot summary below)
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After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for some payback to regain the two years he has lost. He is hired by Mrs. Malroux to fake the kidnapping of her stepdaughter (the daughter of a dying millionaire). He discovers that he is being set up on multiple levels and will soon face a longer prison sentence if he does not prove the truth to the police.
Leave your thoughts about Palmetto.
| Film Journal InternationalGlenn SlavinOffers nothing new or even exciting to the genre. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittHarrelson hits just the right sardonic note in this self-mocking crime drama, but look out for grisly touches along the way. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanPalmetto has a satisfyingly deceptive plot that ultimately takes one too many turns. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkIt's indicative of how crazy matters get when ex-journalist Harrelson gets hired to run the police press office as his caper disintegrates. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe film, adapted from a novel by James Hadley Chase, aspires to out-noir every other film noir that has been lumped under that popular term, including "The Big Sleep" (which it resembles), in plot trickery and steaminess. |
| Film ThreatTom MeekWhat begins as a lush, pulpy gothic laced with intrigue quickly spins into a convoluted web of over engineered and preposterous plot twists. |
| San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserThe script, based on British pulp writer James Hadley Chase's novel "Just Another Sucker," is a muddle, and no actors, no matter how compelling or talented, could make its silly dialogue work. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThere's no buildup and little shape. Scenes are strong, but the movie as a whole flags. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe result, as a colleague once so aptly put it, is less film noir than film beige. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorDirector Volker Schlöndorff is ponderously out of his depth with comic pulp, and fatally heavy-handed with his actors. |
