A Journey to Adventure is such a good title that makes you expect much of a film. Unfortunately this one doesn't begin to deliver. The first section of the film is really weird, in a bad sense of the word - it looks as if the finished product turned out to be about 8 minutes too short, and therefore a mandatory prologue was squeezed out to make the film commercially viable. Both the "prologue" and the first sequence are shot practically without editing, and they destroy whatever mood the following pic might have striven to achieve. The rest is a somewhat confusing crime mystery without being particularly interesting. The action is accompanied bye a comical-illustrative bassoon theme, which really began to work on my nerves from the very beginning. The two leading ladies are very pretty, but they look so much alike it's sometimes difficult to understand who is doing what - especially since one of them is supposed to be a bit evil, the other not. There is the strange absence of direction or moody camera-work which one might expect from a film noir (presumably this film attempts at that), and which sometimes was well achieved by the Finnish filmmakers of that period. All in all, perhaps worthy a look, but very forgettable indeed.
