A turgid triangle running along noir lines, this is a drawn out thriller comprising different accounts of an attempted murder - pretty obviously derived from the Japanese classic Rashomon. It isn't difficult to figure out the culprit, more difficult to figure out the attraction of moody bellboy Jeff Fahey for Bridget Fonda, the slight, plain American wife of the Japanese tycoon who's building an amusement park in the industrial town where Fahey used to work at the giant steel mill, now closed down. The atmosphere of the town's hopelessness is well established, but the unfolding of the slim plotline is slow and seems to take forever to reach its conclusion. J T Walsh, in a bigger role than usual, does a good turn as the local sheriff.

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