Damn, this started out as a great film but never lived up to what it promised in the first 10 minutes.
It's quite a decent watch overall but the first 10 minutes were the best. When James Woods enters the crime scene and there's the woman hanging from the ceiling...there was just something really sinister and atmospheric about that scene. It really surprised me and got my expectations up.
I also really enjoyed the scene where he tells his daughter a bedtime story and it's about one of his cases. Then his wife has a go at him and leaves him.
After that though, the story gets a bit muddled and isn't written that well, which means that everything that should have been quite mysterious in it, isn't. And there could have been a lot of touching moments but they aren't executed very well.
An example of the poor writing is that, after his wife leaves him and takes the daughter too (in the first 15 minutes) they don't appear again for the rest of the film! They just disappear! It's a shame because this aspect could have been developed and given more meaning to Wood's character and the film overall.
The killer also, needed to be written into the film better.
Overall, a decent watch but could have been better and after the first 10-15 minutes it dips a bit in quality.
It's quite a decent watch overall but the first 10 minutes were the best. When James Woods enters the crime scene and there's the woman hanging from the ceiling...there was just something really sinister and atmospheric about that scene. It really surprised me and got my expectations up.
I also really enjoyed the scene where he tells his daughter a bedtime story and it's about one of his cases. Then his wife has a go at him and leaves him.
After that though, the story gets a bit muddled and isn't written that well, which means that everything that should have been quite mysterious in it, isn't. And there could have been a lot of touching moments but they aren't executed very well.
An example of the poor writing is that, after his wife leaves him and takes the daughter too (in the first 15 minutes) they don't appear again for the rest of the film! They just disappear! It's a shame because this aspect could have been developed and given more meaning to Wood's character and the film overall.
The killer also, needed to be written into the film better.
Overall, a decent watch but could have been better and after the first 10-15 minutes it dips a bit in quality.