Really, really REALLY stupid. (Really).
I like the idea of a thriller with a female cop. Certainly Silence of the Lambs proved this can be an interesting lead character; in this case Curtis plays a straight rookie cop, not a detective.
Possible Spoilers:
On one of her very first assignments she stops a violent robber at a grocer store; she winds up having to shoot him; who should be shopping in the same store but Ron Silver, a nervous, on-the-edge stock broker. This scene puts him over the edge, for some reason, and he winds up stealing the robber's gun. Naturally, Curtis is in hot water when she can't prove to her superiors that the man she killed was armed. Silver proceeds to kill people at random, hoping Curtis will investigate; he has become fixated on her, and this is his bizarre way of starting a "relationship." He also introduces himself in the normal way, and they proceed to date, with Curtis never suspecting he's the psycho killer she is pursuing. Then the movie takes a veer toward the disgusting, gratuitous, and plain silly. Silver starts hearing voices talking to him in his head; apparently an old illness reappearing (killing people does that, I guess.) Soon just killing his victims isn't enough. He has to rub his face in their blood. Curtis begins to suspect him (can you say "Duuuhhhhhhh....?"), and they play a cat and mouse game that Hitchcock would envy (not.) At this point the only thing to hold our interest is how stupid it can get. They don't dissappoint. Curtis finally confronts Silver and there is a gun battle. Just how many bullets do these guns fire, anyway? Curtis, having run out of bullets, grabs a car and runs Silver over! Like the Terminator, he stands up again. No offence Ron, but you're no Terminator. This scene is hysterical enough to rent the movie for by itself. Finally, I think she shoots him again, since being squashed by a 2,000 pound car doesn't seem to keep a good psycho down. The movie ends soon after.
The premise is good, and I can even buy Ron Silver being the bad guy, but everything else about this movie is silly, silly, silly. Curtis does a very good as the rookie, but she is the only really good thing in this film. The direction isn't even that bad. It's the script, which bizarrely enough, everyone follows. Avoid, unless you see this with at least three other guys and a huge bowl of popcorn. Mystery Science Theater missed a good op with this one. Three out of ten stars.
I like the idea of a thriller with a female cop. Certainly Silence of the Lambs proved this can be an interesting lead character; in this case Curtis plays a straight rookie cop, not a detective.
Possible Spoilers:
On one of her very first assignments she stops a violent robber at a grocer store; she winds up having to shoot him; who should be shopping in the same store but Ron Silver, a nervous, on-the-edge stock broker. This scene puts him over the edge, for some reason, and he winds up stealing the robber's gun. Naturally, Curtis is in hot water when she can't prove to her superiors that the man she killed was armed. Silver proceeds to kill people at random, hoping Curtis will investigate; he has become fixated on her, and this is his bizarre way of starting a "relationship." He also introduces himself in the normal way, and they proceed to date, with Curtis never suspecting he's the psycho killer she is pursuing. Then the movie takes a veer toward the disgusting, gratuitous, and plain silly. Silver starts hearing voices talking to him in his head; apparently an old illness reappearing (killing people does that, I guess.) Soon just killing his victims isn't enough. He has to rub his face in their blood. Curtis begins to suspect him (can you say "Duuuhhhhhhh....?"), and they play a cat and mouse game that Hitchcock would envy (not.) At this point the only thing to hold our interest is how stupid it can get. They don't dissappoint. Curtis finally confronts Silver and there is a gun battle. Just how many bullets do these guns fire, anyway? Curtis, having run out of bullets, grabs a car and runs Silver over! Like the Terminator, he stands up again. No offence Ron, but you're no Terminator. This scene is hysterical enough to rent the movie for by itself. Finally, I think she shoots him again, since being squashed by a 2,000 pound car doesn't seem to keep a good psycho down. The movie ends soon after.
The premise is good, and I can even buy Ron Silver being the bad guy, but everything else about this movie is silly, silly, silly. Curtis does a very good as the rookie, but she is the only really good thing in this film. The direction isn't even that bad. It's the script, which bizarrely enough, everyone follows. Avoid, unless you see this with at least three other guys and a huge bowl of popcorn. Mystery Science Theater missed a good op with this one. Three out of ten stars.