Reviews

Long time since i put keyboard to computer to give a review, but this film deserves my input, lol......... what a load of rubbish, the acting by all was dire, there was not one of the cast that could be said to be a redeeming factor, the dialog, the directing, the script absolute rubbish.........the people that are here that gave it a good review are either related to "Tommy" (the deaf, dumb and blind kid), or were watching another film of the same title, which is unlikely. It was in the news this week that Lysette Anthony was moaning because she only earned £6000.00 this year through her acting work, well if this film is anything to go by she was well overpaid. The main "hoodie" bad guy, who is in Eastenders at this time, is so hammy and loud, with an accent that cannot be described,is so annoying that you hope he meets his demise in the first scene, though that is not to be, unfortunately. If you want to spend 94 minutes and watch this dribble then don't say you were not warned........it is an abomination.

Should be renamed the Last Resort, because that's what it felt like watching it, it was sooooooooooooo slow, the acting and actors were abysmal, there was only Wade Williams that i had seen before, he was the sadistic warder in Prison Break, and i think his performance in this film was the worst of the lot. with out giving stuff away, it seemed to be a very cheap copy of Tom Selleck's "Jesse Stone" series, but the only similarity was, drunk cop, harbour town, dead girl, from there it is just plain bad, in fact thinking about it, one of the Jesse Stone films was nearly identical, but with good acting and directing.

Don't waste your time on this at all, but if you do , don't say I did not tell you???

I really don't know where to start with this review, in 1996 a photographer was found guilty of the rape and murder of wannabee model Linda Sobek, i really feel for the young woman's dependents, i do not think they should have been subjected to this convoluted mess of a movie, the direction is abysmal, it is all over the place from flashbacks, to facts, to fiction, to actual footage, to the narration, my wife was lost off in the first couple of minutes, this guy could not direct traffic. The acting is truly terrible, i have seen better acting at my children's school plays, Trudi Jo Marie Keck plays the part of model Linda Sobek, and that is where everything goes pear shaped, OK, she is not bad looking, she has i suppose a nice figure, but her acting is truly awful, she looks like a porn actress trying to play a Oscar winning role, very hard to explain, but to make matters worse, she is the editor of the movie, can you just see her in the editing room, "i stay, that bit goes", "i stay, that bit goes", i think you get what i mean, and the rest of the cast are really no better, so all in all don't be lured into this because you WILL be disappointed, be safe.

This is English film making at its worst, i really do not know how or why it got funded in the fist place, it has some good actors, Dennis Waterman, Brian Blessed and Martin Kemp, and putting aside his days as bass player with Spandau Ballet, a very good actor, so again, why would they take on this project, money, fame, favor, suicide. To cut to the chase, we have a pair of con men, one of which is a lord of the realm (nothing new there then)and his old school mate, together they are know as, wait for it, Marks & Spencer, paaleese, must have had an epiphany to think of that, and it gets worse, after conning three country's into buying Londons Tower Bridge, the two are back together to steal and sell a space buggy type vehicle, that was invented by the BSA, (British Space Agency) to either the Russians or the Chinese, what a plot, to be honest i never knew we had a space agency, the UK was not one of the first to put anyone on the moon as far as i remember, back to the plot. The thing is there is no space buggy type vehicle, because the BSA ran out of money before it was completed, so what do Marks & Spencer do, they build one from one of those little trucks gardeners use, with some tin foil, wheels from a mini tractor, bits from here and there and lo and behold we have a blue print built, state of the art space buggy vehicle. Needless to say the Russians, the Chinese are in the frame to buy this item for millions, and to be honest who cares, so i am as fed up with writing this review as watching the thing, but i wanted to let you know before you spend your hard earned money, miss this like the plague, in fact the plague may be a better alternative. be safe

I guess when you see the title "The Boston Strangler", you expect to see a remake of the 1968 classic, brought up to date, with modern film making, but no such luck with this title. This is just a Q&A with DeSalvo in prison, with flashbacks to his crimes, and it seems to try and say that DeSalvo may not have been the mass murderer, The actors and acting are dire, the direction is awful, i have no idea what he was seeing through the lens, how could you get a bunch of actors like these to make a film believable, in the original movie Tony Curtis played DeSalvo,with a career best performance, really an Oscar performance, and it shows what a great actor he was back then, Henry Fonda as a law professor, brought in to find the killer, and George Kennedy as the detective, these were Stella performances. In a film about a serial killer you expect, suspense, danger,twists and turns, a psychological thriller, in this remake i am afraid to say the only twists and turns, is when you switch it off.

What a load of tripe this movie is, i cannot understand why Ed Lauter and Danny Trejo would have anything to do with this film, the acting and directing are dire, and the plot is clueless, a woman on a steak out in a bar, using a walkie talkie phone to talk to one of the other "undercover" cops out side in a top down convertible Mustang, five of them go out to stake out a bar, again in a top down convertible,five of them ??, they send two of the girls into one of the toughest places in Venice Beach, acting as hookers, and they take the place apart in a flash, but the rest of the team is outside standing in the street with headphones on listening in, covert or what. one of the "undercover" cops get pregnant, but not sure which one of the other cops is the father, do i really need to say any more, watching paint dry would be more exciting.

Do not bother watching this movie, go straight to "ENOUGH" with J.Lopez or better yet "SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY" with J.Roberts,as they are far, far better then this, there are more holes in this movie then in a second hand dartboard, you have a woman who is in fear of her life, she see's her wife beating husband after 18 months, so she dashes home to find the window smashed, and the front door open, what does she do??????, call the Police, get the hell out of there, get a machine gun, leave the country, NO she has a shower, and the front door is STILL open, doh. in the meantime her husband is on a killing rampage, but he is knocking off people that have no reason to be killed, with the exception of his wife's friend, that really deserves to be whacked, i mean, would you invite a complete stranger into your house,that pretends to be interested in a house purchase down the street, i don't think so. I know it is only entertainment, but PALLEEZE are we complete morons, well the director seems to think so, he even has the battered wife wearing a wig at the start of the movie, which is fine if we see her later with a shorter then the wig hair style, but no, we see her with long flowing locks that "L'Oeal" would gladly pay millions to get the formula, are we expected to believe her hair has grown long and wavy in 18 months. In all my comments i tell people to make up there own minds, but if you want to see a movie with this storyline, than forget this one, go for one of the good ones.