It is a film that embodies a set of comedy events, featuring Rigby Reardon (starring Steve Martin) - for a special mission. Rigby is making a special attempt to find the true answer behind the death of a scientist.
Too clever for its own good when it should be worried about being funny.
eFilmCritic.com
July 27, 2002
Mainly for the noir geeks and the Steve Martin fans -- and I'm both.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
January 01, 2000
It makes my head spin to think how many viewing hours must have been spent in order to knit this story together
CinePassion
September 06, 2009
A parlor trick, but the kind -- an inquiring jester making his way through the ghosts of cinema's past -- that gets Godard at the Moviola to layer Histoire(s) together