In the Electric Mist

Tommy Lee Jones once again plays a tough, sharp-tongued cop in this Southern mystery, in which a prostitute found dead in the Louisiana swamp somehow connects with a murder that Jones' character witnessed decades before. There is absolutely no suspense in this film, as it is quite clear that every problem that arises can easily be solved by a few quick elbows, gunshots, or whacks with a baseball bat. The characters, who run the gamut from stereotypical poor black people to stereotypical rich white people, deliver their lines as though they're being whispered into the other ear moments before, and a cameo by blues man Buddy Guy backfires due to his unbelievable lack of soul while away from a guitar. Jones is occasionally visited by the ghost of a wisdom-spouting Confederate general, whose enigmatic presence just made us wish we were watching Wayne's World 2 instead. The film never hesitates to throw in reminders of the tragic Hurricane Katrina, but meanwhile portrays the south as an ignorant, corrupt wetland not worth saving.

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