Gay Falcon, the supposed detective (or maybe even just a regular old Beat cop) is the protaganist at first.
But than he ends up out of 80% of the movie in a coma, with his brother being a lead instead.
That is until the end of the thing where one of them end up inside a weird Castle surrounded by Nazis. Who are about to kill some Latin American diplomats to attempt to destroy the Pan American alliance.
All of this might sound like a typical war movie if 70% of the film didn't spend its time bumbling around with overly silly characters with a surprisingly light and chipper tone.
I thought the entire film was going to devolve into a kind of slapstick comedy where everybody ends up throwing pies at a gun shooter or something.
Cuz that's how everyone's acting for almost to the movie.
It's very light-hearted but then in the last 20 minutes a bunch of fascists show up and the entire movie takes this horrible dark turn.
I say there might be some sort of metaphor here, but there's nothing to really connect the two plots together.
One minute you're witnessing a murder have a man by poison cigar, which may or may not have been caused by a fashion model director. The next thing you know you're driving in a car for the countryside looking for Castle Wolfenstein.
Keye Luke shows up for a couple of minutes playing a butler and he purposely puts on this horrible pidgin English Chinese ''Oriental'' accent, to try and discourage people from entering gay Falcons home.
It's fun seeing him turn this Accent on and off throughout the movie so many times.
Not only is it a subversive form of humour, but it shows people that Luke is a proper American actor and can speak perfectly fine without having to resort to some stupid voice.
Come to think of it, he's the most well-spoken person in the entire movie.
Everybody else has some form of bad East New Yorker accent or sounds like a hillbilly out of the Midwest. Than Luke comes along with his radio presenter voice and blows everyone else out of the water.
The movie has the strange ability to somehow feel like it's 2 hours long despite being barely over 60 minutes. And I don't know why it dragged on so much, as mentioned above it's fun.
Then you take a look at the run time and you realize it's only been 10 minutes. Maybe this film has the ability to the store time. Who knows.
It's an okay movie but I don't think it does a great job to keep your attention. Maybe give it a look if you're going through a falcon marathon of some sort.
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