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This film has the feel of a script that's been resurrected by a writer given the chance to direct his own movie. So it was with writer Jeb Stuart (Die Hard) and this film, his directing debut. The plotting is creaky and predictable in this story of an FBI agent (Quaid) relentlessly pursuing a serial killer (Glover) who, in an effort to intimidate the lawman, kidnaps the agent's child. The action set-pieces show up like clockwork, as this rogue cop battles his own agency in an effort to find his child. Quaid is grim and lifeless, so the film's only sparks are given off by Glover, in a wonderfully shaded performance that keeps you guessing whether he is, in fact, the bad guy after all. --Marshall Fine

Production: Paramount Home Video
 
IMDB:
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
32%
R
Year:
1997
118
863 Views

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  • John Merson
    John Merson
    "He told the truth, and once you tell the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey"   This is RIGHT ON!
    LikeReply 14 years ago

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