Director Brett Leonard's previous film, The Lawnmower Man, has amazing virtual reality effects and an interesting if flawed story. This one has great special effects too, but bad everything else. Jeff Goldblum and Christine Lahti, one of whose daughters died in a road accident, get into a smash themselves, after which he is brought back from the dead by Dr Alfred Molina, who is clearly one of those scientists who dabble in things best left alone. 'He may seem different to you,' Molina warns Lahti. Too true. Goldblum is locked into the mind of a mass murderer who has also been brought back from the dead. Now he's after Goldblum's other daughter and only Goldblum, whose character is appropriately called Hatch, can stop him. What follows is almost unbearably nasty and crammed full with as many adult-certificate elements as even this kind of movie will take. 'Some souls choose only to live for a short time,' drones psychic Rae Dawn Chong (in a worthless part). Would that the film did the same. It seems to go on for ever - even to a scene after the credits.

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