The man who wanted to know everything

THe Man Who Wanted To Know Everything is based on one of a series of books (and it's not the first to be adapted) featuring police investigator Avraham Avraham. The script gives him the requisite attention even though his role in the plot is not very big; that throws the series a little off balance, but off balance isn't always bad in a suspense story. The title character (who is not Avraham) is someone determined to solve the mystery even though he's just a regular fellow. That puts him in a time-honored tradition, but the catch is that he bumbles. It's only natural, and it boosts our sympathy for him. There's a great deal of suspense, but almost nothing in-your-face about it. All I felt was missing is local color; the story is set in the city of Holon, but we feel "there's no there there"-- which some people say about Holon anyway. On the positive side, foreign filmmakers could easily shoot their own versions of the story; it could happen in any city,