Thanks for the memories!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Blistering performances.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Whatever Mark Harmon saw in "Certain Prey" wasn't in it when I saw it. This pedestrian police procedural about Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief Lucas Davenport solving a complicated crime delivers barely enough to make it tolerable. Nothing about Oscar nominated writer & director Chris Gerolmo's run-of-the-mill saga stands out. Mark Harmon is charismatic enough, but nobody else seems remotely interesting. Mind you, Chief Davenport resembles Harmon's Special Agent Jethro Gibbs in large part. The Chief has a cabin in the woods where he goes to ponder things. Davenport's adversaries are a pair of killer bimbos who display no qualms about knocking people off in cold blood. These lethal ladies are bad news. Just ask the stuck-up narcotics peddler who doesn't believe that a dame can kill. One of the gals draws the line at gunning down little girls while the other has worries about a munchkin who saw them leave a crime scene. This is one of many complications that gum up the works for the unlucky pair. Cast as a sexy attorney named Carmel Loan, Lola Glaudini looks like a slim, attractive Susan Sarandon. Carmel is an obnoxious attorney who chases ambulances and loves to get married men in hot water. She hooks up with another lady, Clara Rinker (Tatiana Maslany of "Defendor"), to kill a villainous dope dealer. Initially, Clara is interesting because she became a killer when she killed a rapist with a baseball bat to the brain. Clara's willingness to kill makes her a splendid candidate for hit-man school. Since the St. Louis mob has trained her, Clara has iced more than 25 victims. This cute dish wields a silenced .22 caliber automatic pistol and lives out of town. She loves to pour lead into her victims, long after they have been shot. This poor trait rubs off on her friend Carmel who doesn't know when to start shooting and when to stop. Clara gets into trouble when she kills a cop who witnessed her execution style killing. The FBI is now on her trail, but they don't have much evidence to incriminate Clara.Although our hero absorbs a couple of shots, the Chief survives all the lead in the air with comparative ease. An innocent bystander captures a video of Davenport shooting an assailant charging him with a sports car and a pistol. The best surprise occurs during the last few minutes when we realize that one of those dolls escapes without either dying or doing time. In other words, Gerolmo doesn't tie up everything in a neat bundle. Instead, he leaves strands dangling. If anything sets this made-for-television crime thriller is Davenport's ethically challenged method of operation. He his loves to provoke his suspects and this strategy works. He has little use for search warrants and keeps hose and lock-pick tools handy. Unfortunately, the Chief's adversaries fall for this trick when they aren't tripping themselves up. The gag with the soap is one of the best. Sadly, unlike "NCIS," Harmon is surrounded by actors and actresses that pale by comparison with his gifted CBS-TV colleagues. The repartee between Chief Davenport and his colleagues is pretty bland for the man who wrote "Mississippi Burning," and nobody stands out as prominently as Davenport. A running gag is Chief Davenport's sexual exploits, particularly his 40 nights with a female subordinate. The things to watch for are a thick police manuscript and a lady who has trouble counting the number of .22 caliber cartridges in a container. Harmon delivers the only memorable line of dialogue: "Everybody I talk to says he's dumber than a barrel of hair." This shallow, straightforward thriller is ultimately forgettable. Only die-hard Mark Harmon should endure this polished pabulum.

To quote the late, great Bill Hicks, "Piece of S..."How could Sandford sign off on this stinkburger?Sandford and Lucas Davenport is the best series I've ever read but this movie was a hot, steaming plate of steaming BS.The screenplay seemed more intent on putting in PC lines about gays and feminism than following the book. Where did the gay cop come from? He certainly wasn't in the book.Everyone connected with this stinkburger should be banned from making movies for the rest of their lives. Painful to watch.It was a great book as all the Prey series are but the treatment was juvenile and childishly PC.

It is the adaptation of a book and it played out like a book, with narrations and other adaptation problems. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't that good. I thought Mark Harmon did a very good job of portraying Lucas Davenport. He really captured the world-weariness of Davenport as I had pictured him in the book, without going over the top with the character nor playing another hard charging "Gibbs" role. Davenport was an older cop who had been doing this a long time so I thought this would be a good role for Harmon. I have always liked Mark Harmon and he is just a bit older than I am. As for the other characters they seemed to be poorly cast and poorly acted. I have never liked Lola Glaudini who played Carmel (even though her body looked great). I didn't like her when she was on Criminal Minds. The guy who played Hale is nowhere near what I expected especially with the ranting about how good looking he was but was dumber than a box of lint or whatever they said. Both Athena Karkanis ...Marcy and Tatiana Maslany ...Clara Rinker were, I don't know..... poorly cast, poorly developed and poorly acted. And I don't think these were bad actors based on other roles I have seem them play. Maybe it was poor directing. But they didn't mesh with my expectations of the characters. Over all I was disappointed, expected more and will watch another NCIS marathon if I want to watch Mark Harmon act.......

The movie is a tremendous embarrassment and failure from virtually every standpoint. I can see why they didn't send it to reviewers prior to "opening night." Besides a few shows and cable news, I don't watch much TV, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It's as good a sign as any that America is in serious decline. From the very beginning, the language of seemingly all the characters offended me. Also childish, as well as offensive, was the fact that every character seemed to be sleeping with everyone else. I was appalled by the violence. They witlessly and childishly put the worst traits of traditional male characters into the female characters here. Everyone was described as the "best" -- best lawyer in town, etc. The solving of the case seemed riddled with plot holes and miraculous assumptions and luck. The motivation for the murder of the wife seemed unbelievable -- a high-powered successful lady lawyer kills the wife of a man she has a one-time quickie with in the bathroom of a party 2 years ago because the husband doesn't return her affection!!! I can't recall any good reason for Mark Harmon's character zeroing in on the night club owned by the serial killer. I didn't like someone in the deputy police chief's position breaking into the woman's apartment under the circumstances (and great "luck" finding a bullet and spotting the key phone call entry). His violent "interrogation" scene was a joke. I didn't like many of the supporting cast. Finally, I couldn't believe that Harmon's rainbow staff defied him so -- they couldn't take "no" when he wouldn't disclose what he was doing at the moment, and they went so incredibly far as to blackmail him into divulging the info by threatening to reveal a past sexual dalliance as sexual harassment! They should have been fired. Harmon's character here was too retro and silly -- fast cars and women, fancy dresser, rich computer guy retiring to be top cop. Remarkable that the big-time hit-woman could miss Gibbs at the end.