A serial killer terrorizes a city and only one cop can solve the puzzle, which unbelievably involves prime numbers, star signs and musical tunes! This is either a huge coincidence or a route to a killers identity that only a screenwriter could think up.
Kevin Kline as the brilliant but disgraced cop is on auto-pilot, in a role he could do in his sleep. Alan Rickman is merely window dressing on the edges and is completely wasted as is Susan Sarandon. Harvey Keitel and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio put in passable performances but really the whole cast simply deserves a better movie.
The big problem is that the film tries to pack in too many ideas, the murder, government corruption, family relationships, and a bit of comedy and consequently skims the lot and doesn't do one of them really well.
A passable movie but there are many better detective, action movies around to choose instead.
Kevin Kline as the brilliant but disgraced cop is on auto-pilot, in a role he could do in his sleep. Alan Rickman is merely window dressing on the edges and is completely wasted as is Susan Sarandon. Harvey Keitel and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio put in passable performances but really the whole cast simply deserves a better movie.
The big problem is that the film tries to pack in too many ideas, the murder, government corruption, family relationships, and a bit of comedy and consequently skims the lot and doesn't do one of them really well.
A passable movie but there are many better detective, action movies around to choose instead.