Whatever happened to good old-fashioned detective stories? Here's an example of mutton dressed up as lamb: it turns somersaults pretending to be anything but a straightforward mystery which, alas, is what it is. It runs, apart from the four-letter words, much like the pilot for a TV series. Zero (Bill Pullman) is the sureshot Sherlock who has never failed to crack a case with ease, but then meets his Moriarty in the shape of a woman. There's a jazzy score, Pullman tries - a mite too hard - to make the 'tec as quirky as possible, and writer-director Jake Kasdan tricks it up with lots of top-dressing. Don't be fooled: you can find trickier plots in TV movies any week.

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