Not half as bad as its two-year wait for a cinema release might suggest, this serial killer thriller is overlength and rather sonorously presented. It does, however, have good performance from Bacon as the criminal and Oldman as the law, a very smart legal eagle who gets Bacon off the hook on an especially grisly murder/rape/mutilation charge, only to realise that a) Bacon's guilty b) he's gleefully killing to some kind of rote and c) is toying with Oldman by asking him to represent him again. There's some eye-closing suspense, and good support from Young and Elizabeth Shepherd, but the film comes close to being silly at times and lets its last scene go on too long. With this cast and good story (not the same as script! ) it could have been excellent. One imagines the two leading actors could just as easily have played each other's roles, but no doubt both were appreciative of the change of pace.

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