This effort is worth 90 minutes of your life. As fiction, no, but as a true story, yes. An arsonist is on the loose and the investigation leads to an unlikely suspect. This old Hollywood line ties into the ending. I will leave it there.
Ray Liotta and John Leguizamo are the focus characters and lesser actors would have made this less interesting.
Other comments saying the story doesn't tie together neatly ignore the fact that real crime seldom is neatly packaged. Juries often convict(correctly) on evidence which doesn't all fit into place. Hollywood needs tidiness but the truth often is less than what Hollywood needs.
It's lurid enough to keep the under 35 crowd awake and thoughtful enough to keep the rest of us thinking.
I remember when Wayne Williams was arrested for serial murders in Atlanta. The number of similar murders dropped to near zero when he was put in prison.
Ray Liotta and John Leguizamo are the focus characters and lesser actors would have made this less interesting.
Other comments saying the story doesn't tie together neatly ignore the fact that real crime seldom is neatly packaged. Juries often convict(correctly) on evidence which doesn't all fit into place. Hollywood needs tidiness but the truth often is less than what Hollywood needs.
It's lurid enough to keep the under 35 crowd awake and thoughtful enough to keep the rest of us thinking.
I remember when Wayne Williams was arrested for serial murders in Atlanta. The number of similar murders dropped to near zero when he was put in prison.