A hero in a robbery comes up against a crime boss and the crooked guardian of the girl he loves..
If you love dusty, forgotten 1930s crime flicks with creaky floors and weirdly slow fistfights, The Mystic Hour is worth an hour of your life. Anyone else? You will probably get bored in five minutes flat. 🥱 The whole thing feels like it was filmed in a basement over a single weekend. Our main guy stops a robbery an...
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"If you love dusty, forgotten 1930s crime flicks with creaky floors and weirdly slow fistfights, The Mystic Hour is worth an hour of your life. Anyone else? You will probably get bored in five minutes flat. 🥱 The whole thing feels like it was filmed in a basement over a single weekend. Our main guy stops a robbery and suddenly he is fighting both a crime boss and some sketchy guardian who is keeping the girl he loves away. It is a lot of plot for a movie that is barely an hour long. Honestly,..."
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