This is a minor black comedy, but the art of Michael Caine turns it into an enjoyable if forgettable lark. The story is Kind Hearts and Coronets meets Columbo, set in America, with Caine as a good-natured, efficient, henpecked businessman tipped over the edge by his failure to clinch a long-expected promotion at his firm. After accidentally pushing a tramp under a subway train without recrimination, he does what 90 per cent of the world's population dream about. He murders the ruthless, obnoxious and ambitious yuppie who has leap-frogged him at the firm. Then, of course, there's the nagging wife. She'll have to go too. And there's the detective on his trail (Will Patton, with apologies to Peter Falk). And the managing director. And even the mistress who could betray him. Caine keeps it all jogging nicely along, with only token help from his script and director. Just watch his face as his wife's ashes blow back over him at her funeral. And chubby-cheeked Peter Riegert proves he can play a nasty blowhard as well as an unassuming nice guy.

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