An average movie

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Tim Roth and Gabriel Byrne and since I found a very cheap DVD, I thought I should check it out anyway. Honestly, I thought it was a very weak thriller. Basically, you have two half-baked plots (Scott Wolf is chasing a serial killer and Tim Roth is chasing Scott Wolf) and you have way too many sub-plots, including two romantic ones, which were even less properly developed. Apparently, it was Keith Snyder’s directing debut and he has never made another movie afterwards but I can’t say it was really surprising. I mean, the directing was not really bad but there was an obvious lack of inspiration and it felt really generic. Above all, I thought the acting was actually quite terrible. Scott Wolf, like most of the cast of ‘Party of Five', tried to develop a career on the silver screen but, except for ‘Go’ which was pretty cool, he only made terrible movies such as this one. The rest of the cast was not more convincing either. I mean, Gabriel Byrne was completely underused and it was as if Tim Roth was sleepwalking throughout his whole performance. I think that there were some good ideas and it could have been something interesting but the execution was quite disappointing. To conclude, it is a rather obscure and forgotten thriller but it really deserves this reputation and I don’t think it is really worth a look whatsoever.

5/10