Starring: Ben Cross,
Adam Baldwin, Shannon Tweed, Dave Thomas, Henry Czerny, Maria del Mar and
Lenore Zann
Genre: Thriller,
Erotic Thriller
Rated: R
Mark Cahill (Cross) is a family man with a beautiful wife
and two healthy young boys. However, he is harboring a secret life as a gun for
hire. After killing a woman (Zann) on his last job, she haunts him wherever he
goes. Meanwhile, he is about to be caught in the middle of a web of betrayal
when he is hired to kill his next target.
This was a pretty dull thriller. I went into it not
expecting much and that’s about what I got out of it. None of the characters
are really likable. The only one who is really sympathetic is Cahill’s wife
Joanne (del Mar), as she has no clue about her husband’s true career or why he doesn’t
seem to want to make love anymore. The rest of the characters are all rather despicable.
Mark is a hit man who, up until his sudden development of a conscience, had no
problem dispatching innocent people. Beth (Tweed) is having sex with every man
in her life except her husband Larry (Thomas), which is almost understandable
as he is such a jerk to her and everyone else around him. Sean (Czerny) is one
of Beth’s lovers as well as Larry’s business partner, and Mitch (Baldwin) is
her low-life former boyfriend turned lover. All of these characters have
secrets and evil tendencies and no one is safe.
As this is classified as an erotic thriller, T&A abounds
in this flick. Tweed is naked in at least 75% of her scenes, and both Zann and del
Mar show off their breasts at least once. At least there was a little male
nudity to make up for it from Baldwin and Czerny, but nothing to really get
excited about.
The performances were alright for what the film called for.
Cross’s performance was rather stiff as Cahill, and he really only showed some
sort of emotion at the climax of the film, but not in scenes where he should.
Thomas seems to have the grouchy, middle-aged, drug addicted business man down
pact, and Tweed mostly just had to get naked with some attractive men. She does
show a bit of talent at the twist-filled climax, however. Baldwin injects a
little bit of humor into his childish hoodlum and Czerny is rather wooden. The
performances fit the roles, but brought nothing special to them.
The plot is the biggest issue with this flick. Why does a
man who has been killing professionally for years suddenly develop a
conscience? There is nothing special about Zann’s character other than the fact
that she’s cute, an overall innocent bystander, and Cross’s character witnesses
her having sex with his intended victim. I don’t really see how any of these
factors would make a man like him feel bad for what he’s done. Many of the
people he’s been hired to kill are probably innocent too. Also, the twists and
turns are fairly predictable and I saw the ending coming long before I reached
it.
Overall, this is a pretty lame thriller with a problematic
plot and unlikable characters, but plenty of nudity. It’s not terrible but it’s
not really good either.
5/10
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