This film was embarrassing to watch. Had I read the reviews on IMDb, I would've passed on it. And it's a shame, too, because of the well-known actors on hand - Esai Morales, Alec Baldwin and Terrance Howard.
Crescent City had Howard's detective character come off as weak and spineless, barely able to do his job.
The movie had a great fake out in the beginning where they showed the killer who was clearly a woman, but the reveal later on showed that it was Morales in drag. What a rip!
My biggest grievance is the ending. Morales and Howard duke it out in the end on Morales's lawn, then in the next scene, Howard is in a hospital bed. Okay. So what happed to Morales the serial killer? Was he killed? Arrested? Sent off to a gulag deep in Siberia? The movie doesn't say.
Another annoying bit was Howard killed the kid which, supposedly, he didn't remember because he blacks out every time he holds a gun on somebody. Yeah, whatever. Nevertheless, he did kill an unarmed kid, yet the chief of detectives gave him back his badge with no investigation? The movie basically said Morales, who took the trailer kid's bag of money, was worse Howard who shot him/
I'm angry I wasted time with this tripe. I gave it two stars instead of one because of the clean, crisp cinematography.
