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Interesting movie. Not sure I liked the ending. Good love story but, the girl in this movie ticked me off a lot. When you have someone like Dean Cain as your lover. DO NOT GO FOR THE BROTHER. Dumb. DO NOT HOLD A GUN WITHOUT GLOVES. Really dumb. DO NOT LIE TO YOUR HUSBAND. Really really dumb. It always comes back to bite you. DO NOT LISTEN TO A SINGLE WORD A KILLER HAS TO SAY. Ingredibly dumb. Especially a killer who has the gun which killed your husband's brother with your fingerprints on it. Could have been better.

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AN OK SUSPENSE-THRILLER
A YOUNG STOCK BROKER [DEAN CAIN] GETS INVOLVED WITH A WOMAN NAMED CAMILLE WHO JUST HAPPENS TO'VE BEEN LINKED WITH A RUTHLESS CRIMINAL [ERIC ROBERTS] WHO KILLED HIS BROTHER. A SUSPENSEFUL STORY IS WHAT REALLY KEEPS THIS MOVIE GOING. I'M NOT REALLY TOO FOND OF THE TWO STARS OF THIS MOVIE, BUT THEY DID OK IN THIS ONE. I'D SAY IT'S WORTH A RENTAL ON A FRIDAY NIGHT.

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A disappointment, yet intriguing
The DVD isn't in widescreen format, which is always disconcerting. However, the film itself is uneven. The main performances are all good, with a particularly fine performance by Dean Cain in the lead as a man who's obsessed with finding out who killed his brother and why, then has to deal with the fact his own wife was involved. Eric Roberts is fine playing a man who's gone over the edge (a type he's done in the past). He's not playing a man you love to hate, but just a man you hate. The female lead gives an effective performance in a two-dimensional role, but it's an impossible role to play, like being cast as Helen of Troy or some other legendary beauty - you can't win. Literally every lead male character in the film falls for her, and since all three guys are so different in type you can't figure they'd fall for the same type of woman, so what makes this one so special? That kind of conceit in a film is trying to force a viewer to suspend disbelief. It doesn't work, neither does the fact she's apparently not too bright, because the first half of the film is so implausible she should have seen it all coming. By the final half of the film, however, the plot becomes tighter, more tense, and this leads to a satisfactory finish. Worth watching for the acting, and how it all ends.