guilfisher-1 To begin with this is one movie when I wanted the lead to be the next victim. Alison Eastwood, unfortunately didn't inherit any of her dad's talent. A completely unbelievable performance. I can accept anything in these bad made for TV movies on LMN, but not this one. I couldn't believe how this inept detective gets away with what she does. Taking on a man twice her size in one punch; tripping a guy with a gun. C'mon gimme a break. She plays the role with the emotional level of a minus 10. Monotone voice, blank facial expressions and absolutely no sex appeal, this was a mistake. I guess when your father's a star you get all the breaks. Everyone else in this loser I won't embarrass them by mentioning their names. I'll give them a break to help them forget this experience with Eastwood's bad acting. She can't be serious about a career. Please.

hannoverfisk I totally disagree with the other user comment that totally disagreed with everyone else. Besides the BAD acting, and the BAD directing (for cinematic effects, it would slow-mo the drama... a lot), this movie at it's end just made no sense.I have to say that you know it's bad within the first five minutes, but the majority of the criticism I can give comes having seen the ending, waiting to "tie loose ends up." So the majority of my critique will be listed under SPOILER! I will give Kudos for the fact that the movie keeps you guessing as a whodunit. Unfortunately, the end result is cockamamie.AS WELL, I thought C. Thomas Howell's character, though over the top, was actually quite entertaining. For just a few minutes, I was entertained.So onto the Spoiler... the culprit was someone who at no point in the movie even seems capable of being the killer. He never shows signs of oddness or mental illness at any time. Nor does he seem capable of having the necessary knowledge of cuneiform. The two people with star power have a total of 10 minutes of film time between them. There is no explanation of why there is a priest FBI guy on the scene, and he just appears in and out of the film inexplicably. The police department is completely shoddy and crooked and shields their detectives from investigation BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST DOING THEIR JOBS! vilifying the process of internal affairs investigations.There's even a secret tunnel into the church where the murderer goes in and out of, and when the police find it, they never post anyone to watch it. The priest hides the secret of the tunnel, because he doesn't feel it's important. Huh? What the hell? Bad writing, bad acting (I think with a better director, the actors could have performed better), and definitely bad direction. And of course a requisite sex scene that does nothing to further character or plot, simply because it's a B horror movie.IF YOU WANT TO SEE AN EXCELLENT AND UNDERRATED B HORROR FILM: try Close Your Eyes with Goran Visnjic from ER and Shirley Henderson (Moaning Myrtle).I KNEW I should have avoided this film, but I was in the mood for cheesy horror, but I got just cheesy.

timbrown3630 This was the worst movie that I have seen in a long, long time. My wife and really love "cop movies" but it seems as if they just don't know how to make them any more. When will we again see a "Serpico" or "French Connection"? I was absolutely appalled by the cartoon like performance of C. Thomas Howell. I wondered what happened to this promising actor and now I know...his was probably the goofiest part in the whole movie.Well I guess that $3.00 wasn't too much to lose for this dreadful piece of dreck. After all, we had more than a few good laughs at the hammy acting and crappy sets.

matsbjork I'm glad i saw this movie since it broadened my view on how to judge a good movie. This movie has all the right elements of being a good movie. Quite good actors (but not good in this movie), quite good budget, a good script pitch and so on.It does however fail in the script section as well as in building the story. It takes unlikely turns and doesn't create the important trust between the storyteller and the viewer.POSITIVE: The picture and environment was occasionally good. The main story pitch is good. The actors are usually good.NEGATIVE: All the rest.I found this movie a sad use of time and money so my advice is to invest your time otherwise.