This one must have dropped on a few stars' doorsteps before they finally found any takers. Tony Goldwyn and Lynn Whitfield ended up playing the lead roles in an action comedy where only the action scenes show any sign of working at all. It's the kind of thing that was considered hihg fashion in the seventies, where the hero (a material witness) and heroine (a feisty cop) go by a truck, taxi, speedboat and car, running, swimming and riding their way to a vital court hearing in between dodging the villain's sextet of the hit-men (well, you would need six assassins to bump off one man, wouldn't you? ). Years before and with a better script, it might have starred George Segal and Jane Fonda. Here, ironically, it's poor Segal who has the worst role of all as the prosecutor, mugging even more frantically than fellow-unfortunates Alan Arkin, Will Paton and Peter Boyle, who play bad guy, defence consel and judge. The dated antics are padded out to feature kenght with deejays on the soundtrack and panoramnic views of New York City.

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