SPOILER ALERT It is a tortured plot but one does not realize that until the hackneyed ending. Then it becomes obvious how contrived the plot is. The writer decided on an ending and then wrote backward to make it happen. Only problem is that it depends on a series of coincidences which it is highly improbable would ever happen. Don't want to give the plot away. The movie is not helped by poor acting performances, particularly by Kiefer Sutherland. If Rebecca De Mornay had done a better job of acting, it was a perfect role for her.
Sadly, realism is sacrificed in this movie. A man is shot with a pistol and flies out of the window on the tenth floor of a building and lands across a 40 foot wide street. Pistols don't blow men through windows and no one could jump 40 feet backwards.
A man is shot in the face with a shotgun to destroy his identity. Come on, his dental work and finger prints remain so identification should be relatively easy and since the suspect was a former detective, the suspect would have insisted on a rigorous identification.
And the suspect would have insisted on the use of a paraffin test which would have excluded the suspect as the murderer. Why is it that screenwriters and directors are so stupid.
The film leaves ends dangling. Sutherland is identified with a certain classic car. During one scene it is towed off by police. There is no follow up on this and what one never knows the relevance of that particular scene.
About the only thing good that can be said of the movie was that it was not predictable until the near the ending. But once it ended it left a bad taste.
Sadly, realism is sacrificed in this movie. A man is shot with a pistol and flies out of the window on the tenth floor of a building and lands across a 40 foot wide street. Pistols don't blow men through windows and no one could jump 40 feet backwards.
A man is shot in the face with a shotgun to destroy his identity. Come on, his dental work and finger prints remain so identification should be relatively easy and since the suspect was a former detective, the suspect would have insisted on a rigorous identification.
And the suspect would have insisted on the use of a paraffin test which would have excluded the suspect as the murderer. Why is it that screenwriters and directors are so stupid.
The film leaves ends dangling. Sutherland is identified with a certain classic car. During one scene it is towed off by police. There is no follow up on this and what one never knows the relevance of that particular scene.
About the only thing good that can be said of the movie was that it was not predictable until the near the ending. But once it ended it left a bad taste.