Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

SnoopyStyle Pittsburgh police homicide detective Tom Hardy (Bruce Willis) is an outcast after testifying that his partner and cousin Jimmy Detillo (Robert Pastorelli) used excessive force. His uncle Capt. Nick Detillo (Dennis Farina) and cousin Danny Detillo (Tom Sizemore) are both fellow officers. Tom and his father chase after the serial killer Polish Hill strangler. His father is killed. He suspects the strangler is a police officer. The police make an arrest based on a questionable witness. Jimmy jumps off a bridge to escape prison time and presumed dead. Two years later, Tom has become a drunk and transferred to River Rescue. Jo Christman (Sarah Jessica Parker) is his new diver. The killings start up again and this time, the killer is directly taunting him.This is an overwrought unreal police thriller. The opening car chase is crazy. It's borderline joyous fun and I'm willing to go with it. However that's not where this movie is going. When Jimmy jumps off the bridge, all of a sudden the heaven opens up and rain pours down. The movie keeps pushing everything over the top. Dennis Farina and Tom Sizemore never stop yelling or talking intensely. Sarah Jessica Parker is playing a hottie in this one. There are some unbelievable things going on that feel unrealistic. This movie could use a little simplification and a lot more believability.

gregorybnyc Thank goodness Bruce Willis and Sarah Jessica Parker have good chemistry because they are not allowed any time for a relationship to develop. In a blink they are smack-dab in a romance. But this police thriller has some funky, operatic and over-the-top moments that show the plot's weaknesses. The clichés keep piling up from the bad-mouthing, trash- talking banter between "Irish" and "Italian" cops, to the endless profanity, and the staginess of the big scenes. It's also pretty violent. Bruce Willis is almost always a good action hero. Sarah Jessica Parker knows how to do the girl part perfectly. Their scenes have real chemistry. Dennis Farina is always a great cop and he manages to keep you fascinated even when his sons are acting perfectly ridiculous. John Mahoney, Andre Braugher and Timothy Busfield show their talent and professionalism and are captured before bigger roles made them major TV stars. I did find Braugher chewing up the scenery a bit too lustily in the hearing scene. I save Robert Pastorelli's utterly hammy appearance for last. He's a fine actor and I loved his classically funny house painter, Eldin on Murphy Brown. But he's assigned the psycho role here and the screenplay doesn't give him any depth at all. He's just an insane psychopath. There's not a clue as to why he behaves as he does. Maybe the director should have stepped in more to tone it down. The final confrontation with Willis steals from every thriller you've ever seen, most obviously Fatal Attraction. And it goes on forever. Rerun on TV it was fun to encounter this movie, which I had not seen when it was first released.

plex We see Bruce Willis develop his 2-dimensional acting "chops" in this, one of his earliest action flicks. He basically has 3 emotions: the overly subdued "I'm to cool to care" tone, the aloof/smug tone, and the yelling tone. The facial contortions he exhibits when he shoots a gun is so ham and often repeated throughout his career. ( Don't get me wrong, some of his films, if not his work, I am very fond of). You either love Sarah J, Parker or not. But it strikes me odd that she has been in SO many love scenes and starred in the Sex & The City shows and movies, yet she obviously takes herself too serious as their must be a no-nip clause in all of her contracts. I guess whats good enough for serious actresses like Helen Mirren, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, and Julianne Moore isn't good enough for her. The film: This is a 19 year old movie, so I am going to assume the plot has been well covered here. But I couldn't get passed a couple of things: Great opening car chase scene, highly frenetic, however father and son are having a completely sedate personal conversation. Its one thing to be in control of your emotions, its another being inhuman. So they get in this rolling car crash, its the middle of the day and apparently they all just sat there for hours and hours because its dark when the other cops ( some involved in the pursuit) arrive at the scene. Second big thing, you have our villain, a cop. He's on the bridge for the longest time. All of his relatives are cops, his dad is a cop. There's is the omnipotent river patrol, who our protagonist joins later in the film. Yet, when the villain jumps in, the river patrol cant immediately find him? After all, all of the other dead bodies are found, and apparently the river is pretty clean ( of course not) because we see night-time underwater sequences. Wouldn't they want his body recovered? They certainly had the resources. Minor things: Why was the guy who dumped a throw-rug so anxious to risk life&limb and his car ( which explodes) over it? Was this our villain? Never explained. The worst things for me had to be Sarah's mushy court-room testimony, and Brion James ( who I like in other films) who is so over-the-top angry about everything its just plain humorous, or his diatribe in the end when he eats crow and ego strokes Bruce. Really cheesy.

Jackson Booth-Millard I had heard the title and who starred in somewhere, I am pretty sure it was from seeing the DVD cover, I guess I watched it just to see some reasonable action fun with the two lead stars I knew. Basically Det. Tom Hardy (Bruce Willis) comes from a generation of cops, and he is devastated when his father Vince (John Mahoney) dies during the chase of a serial killer, and after he gets himself in an argument with his partner and cousin Det. Jimmy Detillo (Robert Pastorelli). Two years later Tom is working as part of the river rescue police, but is pulled back into action with new partner Jo Christman (Sarah Jessica Parker) when possibly the same killer, nicknamed the Polish Hill strangler, is on the loose again. The victims seem to be women that Tom knew, making him a prime suspect, and no-one apart from maybe Jo believes it is the same killer from the past, and he will have to find the right clues to prove his innocence. Keeping an eye on him is Capt. Nick Detillo (Dennis Farina), an acquaintance from two years ago, and Tom and Jo and do come across some small clues, it is obvious that they are slowly falling for each other. Eventually when trapped, Tom finally gets the truth from Nick, that Jimmy was the killer, he has been copycatting the crimes, and he was the one who killed his father, but in the end of course the guilty are caught and the good guys go back to the better life. Also starring Tom Sizemore as Det. Danny Detillo, Brion James as Det. Eddie Eiler, Timothy Busfield as Tony Sacco and Poseidon's Andre Braugher as Dist. Atty. Frank Morris. The acting was a little flat in parts, and they could have been a few more explosive and gun filled chase and action sequences, I will admit as well I didn't exactly pay the fullest attention while watching, but I guess as a cop looking for a serial killer story is is okay, an alright crime thriller. Worth watching!