The role of a female cop fighting to find a serial killer in the city would seem tailor-made for Jamie Lee Curtis's tough-tender personality. Sadly, the character is helplessly adrift in a ludicrous psycho-thriller that needs at least four (equally silly) climaxes before it can stagger to a conclusion. Badly scripted, packed with giggle-provoking dialogue and events that go on too long and just hold up the story, the film's stuck from the start with the audience knowing who the killer is. That negates any impact the plot might have derived from having him strike up a romantic relationship with the central character. Her subsequent entanglement with a detective is equally unacceptable, as are the killer's appearances in her (surely quadruple-locked) flat, in her parents' house or, come to that, wherever she goes. Good though it is to see a woman protagonist enlivening the old formula, you'll feel embarrassed for the actors, who simply can't make any of this seem anything but psycho-twaddle.

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