This ill-conceived affair tries to mix police mystery thriller elements with social comment about race relations in the Caribbean. On both scores it fails miserably. Denzel Washington is an island police chief under pressure to charge a childhood friend with the murder of a white businessman, who's been decapitated in a hotel Jacuzzi. But his acting is all on the surface and the rest of the cast are criminally wasted, especially Mimi Rogers, who surely took the role because she fancied a holiday in a beautiful hot spot. The villains are pretty transparent - in fact the principal villain of the piece is Swiss-born director Carl Schenkel for believing he had talent or ability. Probably the only way to get any enjoyment out of the cornball affair is to treat it like a holiday report on Jamaica, where it was filmed. And yes, the film is named after the Bob Dylan-penned song, which gets several plays whenever the action lapses - which is often.


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