Developments are heavily signalled in this thriller of menace, in which psychotic policeman Ray Liotta develops a fixation of the beautiful wife (Madeleine Stowe) of businessman Kurt Russell, and determines to ruin Russell's life and take her away from him. From here on in, you'd better be prey to the easy thrill as the plot goes strictly by the numbers. Showers are on while phones ring; the family cat is good for several attempts to make us jump; and people do the usual silly things they do in such films. Liotta's partner tells him he'll turn him in if he doesn't get help; no prizes for guessing his fate. Stowe's friend goes straight to the door and dismantles the burglar alarm after she's persuaded Liotta, who frightens her, to leave his 'groceries' outside the door. Curtains again! And Russell, framed by Liotta on a drugs charge, can't get bail because of some mysterious long-past misdemeanour. Deprived of any touch of originality or surprise, director Jonathan Kaplan does the best he can with what's left, giving us lots of violent action and a modicum of suspense.


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