You think you know what Andy Garcia‘s Diamondis going to be right from the opening scenes as we meet ’40s-style, fedora-wearing private eye Joe Diamond (Garcia), who looks, talks and walks like he is in a film noir, the kind of B&W Bogart and Mitchum regularly gravitated to. He’s all business in his aging L.A. office with his secretary, Elizabeth (LaTanya Richardson Jackson), but as he emerges into the daylight to his 1940s convertible, a Waymo drives right by in front of him. Suddenly Diamondhas fooled us.
Garcia wrote, directed, stars in and composed the music with Arturo Sandoval for this wonderfully atmospheric, nostalgic and entertaining contemporary noir. His Joe Diamond is a guy who seems to have stepped in from a different era but is talented enough in solving crimes that the LAPD and district attorney learn not to ignore him, even if on the surface he looks and sounds like he might be a little loony. No, this isn’t Chinatown, Jake. It is current-day Los Angeles, and Diamond is on a new case, commissioned by the wealthy widow, Sharon Cobbs (Vicky Krieps), whose husband has mysteriously turned up dead.
Source: deadline.com