The performances and the cinematography are good and it is a well directed film. The main problem is the story. Nothing makes sense or adds up to anything, you don't necessarily care about any of the characters, and the editing is pretty awkward. Everything should've been given more context, and it should've been longer instead of just 90 min.

The movie's 4.8 IMDb rating as I write this seems terribly unfair. The reviews that take down the picture relate to it's slow pace and dark, brooding atmosphere, and I get the sense that the misogynistic treatment of women turns a lot of viewers off. Well, aside from the political correctness of modern day society and the idea that real emotions shouldn't affect one's personal sensibilities, I thought the picture was a fairly compelling one. I'm not familiar with the real life case that inspired this story, but I don't doubt that it was just as fascinating. What I wasn't used to seeing was Jim Carrey in a role in which he wasn't dumb and dumber. There was only one scene in which his eyes gave away a hint of his more familiar characterizations, and it was fleeting enough that one couldn't say it was misplaced in a somber film like this one.

The story did all it could to paint Krystof Kozlov as a reprehensible character, and he didn't help himself with statements like "Thank you for wasting my time" to an interviewer, and "Truth is what you make it. Reality is perception". Here was a man with total anger at the world who may not have even known why. Tadek Vietzek's (Carrey) interest in Kozlov becomes an obsession to solve a closed murder case with an apparent underlying motive to discredit the man who became his police chief. That he finally does so leads to dire consequences for himself at the close of the picture, a twist in thefilm that is only revealed when Kozlov's woman Kasia (Charlotte Gainsbourg) relates the story of how one Daniel Sadowski really died at her hands.

With Jim Carrey the only well known actor as part of the cast, his graying beard and grizzled facial complexion add a resonant somber tone to the story. Being of Polish background myself, I hung around for the post film credits to marvel at the Polish names associated with the making of this picture. Aside from the principal players, keep a sharp eye out for understated cameos by Malgorzata Krukowska, Lukrecja Nagabczynski, and Wojciech Graniczewski. Who knows if you'll ever see them again.

Who is I? And what did "I" do? Well something to find out in the movie I reckon. I am or rather was susprised to see Jim Carrey in this. Especially considering how he allegedly had issues with Kick Ass 2 being too violent. Either that was false or he changed his mind? Whichever it is, this is quite a stretch for him (the themes of the movie that is): Sex and violence.

Well I guess it had to happen someday. Still weird to see him in something as dirty and rotten like this. Not sure if it helps or works against it (not expecting him in a movie like this that is), but whatever the case is, this has a few flaws. Relying too much on the shock and twist effects, it kinda loses control over other things ... still overall decent if you can stomach the nastiness