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Reviews for "Raines"
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With his jittery eyes and off-kilter speaking cadence, Pittsburgh native Jeff Goldblum may be the least believable casting for a police detective ever. Thank goodness "Raines" creator Graham Yost ("Boomtown") cast Goldblum as a damaged cop who sees and carries on conversations with the hallucinations of the murder victims whose deaths he's tasked with investigating.
These apparitions begin to appear to Goldblum's Michael Raines after his former partner, Charlie (Malik Yoba), is shot and Raines is forced to kill the shooter. In his first case back since that incident, Raines investigates the murder of a young woman who appears to him as he digs into her background. They converse and she poses questions but never tells him anything he couldn't deduce on his own. She's really more of a sounding board, a purpose also served by Raines' former partner, who teases and cajoles Raines and is the only one Raines tells about his dead victim sightings.
It is interesting to see how the victim's appearance and personality change as Raines' suspicions about her and the case evolve.
"It's like you just turned into Kathleen Turner in 'Body Heat,' " he tells her after she takes on a more sultry, femme fatale appearance.
At the outset, Raines tells viewers he's a fan of '40s-era detective stories, so it's no surprise the show is awash in noirish tropes, from the music to aspects of the title character's imagination.
As close-ended procedurals go, "Raines" certainly offers an intriguing hook, but I'm not sure it's one with much staying power. Because the victim is a hallucination, not a ghost, there's the danger of them all starting to sound alike, always returning Raines' questions with more questions. That could get old quick.
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| Review posted on Friday, April 13th 2007 8:32 pm |
| 3 members found this review useful |
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