For the first 45 minutes, this threatens to be a good serial-killer thriller - but it just doesn't stick to the matter in hand. It spends too much time instead on the romance between burnt-out detective Andy Garcia and beautiful blind girl Uma Thurman - and on Thurman's character in particular, when it should be developing the main thread of its story, about a psycho-killer who has murdered and cut up eight blind girls - so Garcia insists - and is preparing to strike again. These sideshoots act like suckers on a healthy plant, and sap the tension from the murder plot itself. An interrogation sequence involving John Malkovich, who is given an excessive proportion of his pound of flesh as guest star, goes on much too long, and the result of all this is that a potentially tight 90-minute thriller is stretched out to over two hours. The beginning, though, is excellent - a rainsoaked hunt for a grisly needle in a haystack of garbage - and the last 10 minutes are compulsive stuff.


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