I caught this out of KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles flipping channels. I do not like to watch movies on TV because they cut a lot and stack the commercials so heavily at the end that you can never stand to see how they turn out--although missing the inevitable chase scene is good.
But here we have some surprising play amidst the usual corrupt cops and big city decadence. Jennifer Jason Leigh, when she was still as sweet as Tupolo honey--before "Single White Female"--plays a Mississippi girl working her way through the local college by hooking. (If I had read the plot summary I'd have passed: just the title is enough to make me want to burn a leisure suit). She meets Alex Baldwin, who plays a buff psychopathic killer just out of jail. He latches on to her naivete, discovers that she can cook and has a heart of gold; so he makes love to her like he means it, rents her a furnished house and tells her they're married. She only wants white picket fences and being a mommie... He only wants to crash and burn. You can guess who gets what.
Fred Ward plays a crusty detective whose gun, badge and dentures (!) are stolen by Baldwin. Sight joke: as Ward closes in, we see him through the window of his grit mobile peeling a banana to gum.
There's enough clever stuff here to divert the mind once upon a rainy afternoon. Look for vinegar pie used as a lie detector, and a pawn-brokering momma with a mean machete.
(Note: Over 500 of my movie reviews are now available in my book "Cut to the Chaise Lounge or I Can't Believe I Swallowed the Remote!" Get it at Amazon!)
But here we have some surprising play amidst the usual corrupt cops and big city decadence. Jennifer Jason Leigh, when she was still as sweet as Tupolo honey--before "Single White Female"--plays a Mississippi girl working her way through the local college by hooking. (If I had read the plot summary I'd have passed: just the title is enough to make me want to burn a leisure suit). She meets Alex Baldwin, who plays a buff psychopathic killer just out of jail. He latches on to her naivete, discovers that she can cook and has a heart of gold; so he makes love to her like he means it, rents her a furnished house and tells her they're married. She only wants white picket fences and being a mommie... He only wants to crash and burn. You can guess who gets what.
Fred Ward plays a crusty detective whose gun, badge and dentures (!) are stolen by Baldwin. Sight joke: as Ward closes in, we see him through the window of his grit mobile peeling a banana to gum.
There's enough clever stuff here to divert the mind once upon a rainy afternoon. Look for vinegar pie used as a lie detector, and a pawn-brokering momma with a mean machete.
(Note: Over 500 of my movie reviews are now available in my book "Cut to the Chaise Lounge or I Can't Believe I Swallowed the Remote!" Get it at Amazon!)