This OK thriller has good performances from Rebecca DeMornay and Don Johnson, both of whom deserve rather better than this adequate but fairly humdrum script.

Johnson in particular, oozing evil, does his best screen work in some time as a manipulative womaniser and maybe-murderer who hires DeMornay's high-flying lawyer to clear him on a charge of killing his wife.

The lady's intrigued. She takes the case - but soon realises that Johnson is not only guilty, but has been pulling the strings on her and the whole case. DeMornay's character, in fact, is the big weakness here.

When Johnson says that 'You're not as tough or as smart as I thought you were' he's right. She's illogical, too, but maybe we should give her the benefit of the doubt and say that, in the face of Johnson's prime evil, her logic flew out of the window.

Later developments could well raise a few gasps from the nervously inclined, but most viewers will have no problems keeping two paces ahead of the plot.