The combination of bad art, drug abuse and depravity is fatal. Also, it contains lots of marijuana use, brief cocaine use, explicit nudity, foul language, and two really obscene sex scenes. Its left-wing, drug-infused paranoia seems like yesterday’s news. It’s hard to take INHERENT VICE seriously. That said, the movie is convoluted, rambling, boring, incoherent, and anticlimactic. Doc’s investigation leads to a missing police informant, who tells Doc about a drug cartel linked to a mysterious schooner operating in the local bay.īased on a novel by Thomas Pynchon, INHERENT VICE is hard to follow, but not impossible. Shasta suspects Mickey’s wife and the wife’s boyfriend are scheming to have Mickey committed to a mental hospital. Set in 1970, the movie opens with Doc’s ex-girlfriend, Shasta, coming to his apartment to ask him to help her older boyfriend, Mickey Wolfmann, a billionaire real estate developer. INHERENT VICE is a convoluted story about a pot-smoking hippie detective in Los Angeles, “Doc” Sportello, who investigates three cases linked together involving a rich real estate developer, a missing police informant, a drug cartel, and Doc’s ex-girlfriend.
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