Night Moves (1975)

Night Moves is trying to do the kind of neo-noir thing that Chinatown did so very well and that was imitated (also in 1975) by Farewell, My Lovely. The latter is probably slightly better than Night Moves (mostly because of a superb performance by Sylvia Miles), but Night Moves tries hard and it has a good script. Jennifer Warren, who hasn't really made many movies since this one (and is kind of a poor man's Jane Fonda) is really quite good in Night Moves, and so is Gene Hackman, of course. Still, this movie never really gets going in any real way. It feels sort of stalled the whole time, as though it's waiting for something exciting to happen but nothing materializes.