A lethally silly thriller that gets worse as it goes on. We all know that softly spoken, chillingly smiling Donald Sutherland is a bad guy who has done 22 years for killing his wife and, presently released, aims to revenge himself on the now 34-year-old daughter (Amy Irving) who put him away. The film's job is to make us believe that Irving and her 10-year-old son could be so taken in as to restore her father to their lives, believing him innocent. It fails miserably - especially as Sutherland is never sympathetic, and soon starts bumping off other people in Irving's life. Performances are not good and the movie was bad for Irving's faltering career; have a good laugh towards the end - it's the only emotion you'll be able to summon up. Badly directed by Jonathan Heap, whose action is so unconvincing as to rob proceedings of any menace.

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