Ray Liotta is a hard hitting, straight talkin homicide cop in somewhere, U.S.A. He has a generically foreign wife and stereotypical cop friends who he hangs out with and overacts with. Some murders keep happening by a river, wink wink, see what they did there, eh, eh, EH! Sooner or later Ray becomes the main suspect as he has played hide the purple parsnip with all of the dead people concerned. Due to this Christian Slater is roped in to play the obligatory dickhead and accuse everyone left, right and centre. It is then only a matter of Ray and his pals running around trying to find the actual killer before Christian has his way.
What the hell has happened to Ray Liotta? Anybody who has seen Goodfellas will tell you that he had real potential as an actor and is nothing short of amazing in that film. Why O why then has he done pretty much bugger all other than second rate rubbish since then? Christian Slater also has been in some very good films but has the same habit of doing rubbish. This film unfortunately does not redeem either of them. The story itself is ok and plods along nicely and whilst it wont show you anything you haven't seen before it is pretty inoffensive with it. It is a shame then that even the seasoned actors feel the need to overact. Christian Slater is the worst culprit closely followed by the talent vacuum that is Ving Rhames. Alongside the seasoned actors are the support cast the worst of whom is the wife who really should find herself a different career path, preferably something that doesn't require her speaking voice. The only other half decent performance is the bad guy, whom we do meet early on so this isn't much of a spoiler, who does creepy pretty well. Ultimately though the film is a bit shite and should be avoided.
Verdict: 2/5
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