Upon taking the case of a missing girl, Tommy Axhtar, a young smart and honest investigator, who has recently finished a case and in his way back to home, he meets an African bitch that asks him to find her mate, Natasha, finds himself involved in terrible and attacking by his dark past, he tries to survive.
It ticks off almost all the gumshoe-movie clichés: a chain-smoking, whiskey-slugging sleuth, an enigmatic femme fatale, neon-drenched streets and a tangled plot. It even has Venetian blinds.
Slickly paced by Travis -- despite a brief dead patch in the middle -- it's an entertaining, thought-provoking ride nonetheless, and one that maintains its sense of humour despite its seedy subject matter.
Too often City of Tiny Lights is let down by an overeagerness to play up its source material, and hampered by unnecessarily showy direction and inadvisable attempts at gumshoe dialogue.
