I never really know how some movies get into my Netflix queue. It could just be that I saw a trailer and liked it or Netflix may have suggested this one to me, but Uncovered isn't a typical Davis film. It's story line follows a young woman who has been commissioned to restore a fine work of art. During the restoration she finds a mysterious expression that was covered shortly after the painting was completed. The expression is essentially a murder mystery that is wrapped up within the painting itself. After consulting various experts on the era and the game of chess itself, our heroine find herself wrapped up in her own chess game. Whether it is a curse attributable to the painting or modern day greed, the viewer is left trying to decipher the mysterious painting.
Overall I enjoyed this film because the mystery itself was well told, but it was also a film that gave out clues, but didn't make things obvious. In retrospect there were many times during the movie that I could have figured out the final puzzle, but it was never so obvious that it ruined the film. There were a few scenes that I could have lived without and one character who I felt was out of place, but overall this was a European film that I found surprisingly refreshing.