The Caveman's Valentine

...there is pleasure in giving oneself up to the gusty swirls of the film's imagery, and especially to the handsome grandeur of its star...

To watch Samuel L. Jackson in the role is to realize again what a gifted actor he is, how skilled at finding the right way to play a character who, in other hands, might be unplayable.

There is something very appealing about Samuel L. Jackson as Romulus Ledbetter, the hero of this painterly adaptation of George Dawes Green's cult detective novel.