Todd Robinson directs this entertaining crime drama that picks up steam and rolls. Elmer Robinson(John Travolta)and colleagues Charles Hildebrandt(James Gandolfini)and Detective Reilly(Scott Caan)investigate a series of crimes in which the victims are lonely women that fall for a killer con man. Ray Fernandez, alias Ray Martin(Jared Leto)makes a living by placing ads in singles magazines and luring rich, lonely women into a relationship. Ray is aided by another psychopath, Martha Beck(Salma Hayek),who claims to be his sister and a nurse. As the body count increases, Martha becomes increasingly brutal, jealous and very combustible. Elmer is obsessed with solving these cold-blooded crimes. Of course it seems in a lot of crime films that the bad guys are more colorful and interesting than the heroes. No doubt about Miss Hayek dominating each scene she appears. Also in the cast: Laura Dern, Andrew Wheeler, Alice Krige and Dan Byrd.
Review of Lonely Hearts
