Hollywood Confidential

L.A. Confidential it isn’t. Another ill-conceived noir wannabe, Hollywood Confidential has Olmos heading a team of private eyes who, in addition to their sordid yet boring jobs, must contend with the promptings of their tortured pasts (flashbacks, the urge to read Yeats aloud). The real bad guy is Miami Vice creator Anthony Yerkovich, who costars as one of the PIs and perpetrated the incoherent script. D-