• There are artistic ambitions right from the get-go her with a helicopter shot going from a crime scene across town over to the house of Madeleine Stowe and Kurt Russell like Hitchcock would often as a voyeur. Here there is some voyeurism at work- but I think it says more about this type of crime at your doorstep and the horror of that
  • The James Horner score is strong but clearly lifts and riffs from Carpenter’s Halloween score
  • Stowe coming down the stair in her robe foreshadowing Ray Liotta’s fascination with her nods to Double Indemnity and that same scene with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray
  • With Russell, Stowe and Liotta these are three charming actors and characters—I’m not sure about Stowe but the film transforms to play upon the strengths of Russell as a strong leading man and Liotta’s talent for playing characters with an edge—like the revelation he is in Demme’s Something Wild– piercing eyes
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  • Believable domestic issues—and with his glasses on Russell almost reminds you of Gregory Peck- or maybe I’m leaping there because Cameron Crowe did the same thing with Vanilla Sky
  • Goes to some dark places, some nice POV camera work
  • There’s a handheld shot of the camera floating on Russell as he goes to jail
  • The final violent scene devolves a little from the promising premise and start as Liotta falls into a cliché
  • Kaplan tries his hand with some short dissolves but it doesn’t fully fit
  • A solid b-film thriller
  • Recommend but not near the top echelon of 1992