A cocky, smug NYC psychologist (Bruce Willis, who's well cast) watches helplessly as a disturbed patient leaps out a window to her death. Traumatized by the event, he travels to L.A. to visit an ill-fated doctor friend (Scott Bakula), who's promptly murdered. Hmmm... Could the killer be one of the weirdos from Bakula's Monday night group therapy sessions? Willis tries to discover who's responsible but puts aside plenty of time to soak in the in-your-face, goo-goo come-ons of pouty sexpot Rose (Jane March).
Rush's first film since his acclaimed thriller THE STUNT MAN is one big washout story-wise, with ludicrous dialogue and stupid plot developments, plus it goes on forever and has poor work from a completely unsympathetic Willis, an amateurish March and an obnoxious Ruben Blades as the lead cop on the case. So what earns this any stars? Three great character actors in good enough form to elevate this mess to guilty pleasure status; Brad Dourif as an obsessive compulsive lawyer, Lance Henriksen as a embittered man whose family was murdered and Lesley Ann Warren as an insatiable nymphomaniac. All three are great fun to watch in their scenes and the film comes to life when they're on screen. Otherwise it's really not that memorable unless you desperately want to see Bruce Willis' flaccid penis bobbing up and down in the water for about five seconds. That particular scene was cut to keep this from getting an NC-17 rating in theaters (where it flopped), but has been restored for the home video release. Oddly, the fully uncut version of the film reverted back to the R rating once it hit video stores, even though the R-rated video version is identical to the NC-17 theatrical version. Yes, I'm just as confused writing that as you probably are reading it.
Rush's first film since his acclaimed thriller THE STUNT MAN is one big washout story-wise, with ludicrous dialogue and stupid plot developments, plus it goes on forever and has poor work from a completely unsympathetic Willis, an amateurish March and an obnoxious Ruben Blades as the lead cop on the case. So what earns this any stars? Three great character actors in good enough form to elevate this mess to guilty pleasure status; Brad Dourif as an obsessive compulsive lawyer, Lance Henriksen as a embittered man whose family was murdered and Lesley Ann Warren as an insatiable nymphomaniac. All three are great fun to watch in their scenes and the film comes to life when they're on screen. Otherwise it's really not that memorable unless you desperately want to see Bruce Willis' flaccid penis bobbing up and down in the water for about five seconds. That particular scene was cut to keep this from getting an NC-17 rating in theaters (where it flopped), but has been restored for the home video release. Oddly, the fully uncut version of the film reverted back to the R rating once it hit video stores, even though the R-rated video version is identical to the NC-17 theatrical version. Yes, I'm just as confused writing that as you probably are reading it.