Thanks for the memories!

One of my all time favorites.

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.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Half of the movie is sex and nudity. Maybe you should just watch an adult film instead. The story wasn't so bad though I guess. It is about a sexually promiscuous woman, who goes into the wrong hands of a man named Mike. I think Mike was a miscast. Mike should be someone who is suave, devilishly handsome, charismatic... The actor does not really fit that role. I can see Kate Vernon sleeping with him once maybe, but I don't see her being enamored by him and following his every word. Secondly, the ending made it seem like Mike's blackmail of Kate Vernon was a waste of time, which made me wonder what the point of all his hard work was. Thirdly, I don't know how Mike found out who her patients were. Overall, the story is kind of hard to believe. It just seemed like a stupid plan all along. Mike is going to have sex with this woman to blackmail her, just so that he can have her record her criminal patient talk so that Mike can take him out? Seems like he could've made a better plan. And just to end up with Kate Vernon's character not following through with the plan. What a letdown! Still, it keeps you interested till the end and that's good.

Not as bad as all that. The film had more plot than a lot of such offerings. Yes, it is a sign of Lou Diamond Phillips' narcissism, but hey, if you get to write, star in, and direct, why not. I thought Kate Vernon seemed a bit young to be so successful, but they did need a hottie for the role. And after so many years of triple-D mounds of silicone on-screen, it was refreshing to see Ms. Vernon proudly baring beautiful, but normal-sized boobies on film. Some people seem to thank that LDP mis-cast himself in this, but I think that the biggest casting goof was Max Gail as the mob boss. He still exudes the air of earnest goofiness that I remember from when he played Wojciehowicz on Barney Miller. I suppose that even Lou Diamond Phillips could see that, and there must be more to the casting that I am missing. Deliberate irony? In any case it backfired. But really although this film is far, far from great, it isn't that bad. Doesn't deserve a 2.4 rating.

...and could actually be better than most of the vile garbage that comes out of Hollywood lately. Has an interesting premise, and at first you expect it to be another mindless "erotic thriller" (it did go straight to video), but the second half hour springs the "thriller" part that most of these erotic thrillers lack (or never had). Pretty interesting movie.Direction isn't exactly innovative, but pretty fair. Richie Valens actually came off as threatening, hard to do since he's about a foot shorter than the female lead (nothing personal, but I think he could have done better if he didn't star in it, too). There were parts of this movie that had me bamboozled -- I thought it was going one way and it went the other way out of nowhere.Excellent first try from Mister La Bamba. I wonder if he's done anything since...?

I actually enjoyed this movie, which starts in familiar woman-in-danger territory to add its own twists and turns and actually manages to surprise the viewer. Also, there's no final "moral" turn on this : the heroine isn't ashamed of her own sexuality.