It's an extraordinarily funny film, funny in a way that is neither patronising of its audience's intelligence nor complacent about its own.

Gumshoe is an affectionately nostalgic and amusing tribute to the movie-fiction private-eye genre of yesteryear.

Gumshoe, a poor parody of a Humphrey Bogart-type gangster movie, has none of the dash of "oldies."

I found Gumshoe, in fact, a totally captivating film. It affectionately parodies the clipped, hammerblow dialogue of the best 'Forties movies while at the same time sustaining one's interest in a typically convoluted piece of Chandleresque plotting.