Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

A Major Disappointment

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Ashley Judd did a fair few of these crime thrillers and all of them easy watching, this one is no different.

From the start this movie has too many echoes of the Dirty Harry movies the characters the direction, the cinematography and the San Francisco locations as result it feels more like a 1970's film than movie made in 2004. As a result it fails to work, it feels clunky and contrived. The main characters fail to in engage the viewer, the plot is hackneyed.

Rarely do I watch movies and actually get mad because they are so dumb. This movie managed to do that for me, and had me fast aghast at the lines being read. We got a really good cop, who is so good that , at parties she Impresses people with a party trick, that involves her remembering every minor detail of people and places that she hasn't been told to study. This cop gets a big promotion because she single handed took down a notorious serial killer. Bodies start showing up with the same M.Os and around this time, our cop, who is a borderline alcoholic starts to mysteriously pass out every time she drinks a glass of red wine. (She isn't alarmed) We also become aware that she has had one night stands with each of the victims of the serial killer. (She now starts to think she is actually a serial killer instead of become suspicious of a cop that she dated who is a total jerk and obsessed with her in a really creepy kind of way.) No. That guy never makes the suspect pool. And she keeps on drinking the wine , despite really bad experiences after one glass. I won't spoil the entire affair, but I will sum up with a totally ludicrous villain ( that made no sense at all, it's like the writer was like, "who can I pick, that no one will suspect because in real life, they would never do it, and it would defy all kinds of logic and rational thought ?") But the writer does pick that impossible person, and this film is so cheese ball that at the end, he does that thing where the killer decides to tell the cop his life story and the motive and solve the entire mystery for our dumb audience .. This film is so ridiculous on so many levels. Watch it if you want to laugh. How much money did the studio waste on this, when they could've picked some unknown writers script and launched him into a career ? Because I know every single other option was miles better than this one. It's funny. The end is classic. I was kinda sad to see Andy Garcia in this one, though. He is a talented guy.. Ashley Judd never was an actress, you can tell she has paid a lot of money to become one, with acting lessons and on set coaches, but her "talent" is bought and paid for.. Like most newer actresses these days with pretty faces. On film, any poor loser can work, with a good acting coach, editing , good co stars. And if everyone else is doing their good well. Hilarious. Truly. (Tapping forehead) "Why did they spend so much money to make this movie again?" She must know someone, this writer. She must be like Speilbergs kid.

Where to start. First off, Ashley Judd is definitely a beautiful lady but to cast her as a tough and always drunk cop who can't get enough sex is a laugh. The scenes she's in trying' to pull off bein' a cop are a joke. She's better off playin' the girlfriend/mother roles. Seeing her trying' to pull this role off was very painful. Andy Garcia was cast OK but man, I think I could see him a few times in this laughin' at the lines he had. You talk about corny lines. Straight outta the ole 30/40's crime movies and boy they don't fit in here. This thing needed a seriously talented screenwriter to pull this off and they didn't get one.Samuel Jackon. Now to me this one was the reason I titled my intro for this review...workin' for a paycheck. He was so bad and stupid in this it's transparent. No way in the world anyone in this film was doin' anything else but workin' for a paycheck. If they thought any of this bottom feeder was sharp and witty in the beginning, by the end, they were laughin' all the way to the bank.I can't actually believe I finished this one. I think I did so I could write this review lol. Save your netflix cue and skip this one.