Max (Wesley Snipes) is a happily married adman with two kids and a vivacious, if sexually demanding wife (ex-ER star Ming-Na Wen). Max's life, however, is about to get very complicated. On a trip to New York to see a former friend (Robert Downey Jr) with AIDS, his eyes meet across a crowded room with those of Karen (Nastassja Kinski). They meet again at the airport and, after a convenient accident, go to a concert together, get mugged afterwards, and, in need of mental consolation, embark on a one-night stand neither can forget. Snipes' marriage fragments and, a year later, returning to console a now dying Downey, he runs into Kinski, who is there on the same mission. Director Mike Figgis attempts a most unusual style of movie here - a romantic tragi-comedy - and, with the help of his own jazzy score, supplemented by Nina Simone's Exactly Like You, he darned nearly pulls it off, subtly suggesting that the protagonists are more suited to each other than the partners they're with. Performances are all good.

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