This 'lil' film noir has been done over the years many times & it is one of those chestnuts I can & will see many times.
Innocent man trapped,Evil woman killed. Our hero is innocent, That is the basic plot.
As in other reincarnations the film is saved by the actors in it. Once again good acting makes a routine film seem much better than it should be,
This is a 1998 film & the 2 stars are now big name players, Both Joachim Phoenix & Vince Vaughn had only made a few films before this. & you can definitely see why they became big time players in a few years.
Joachim is our young, not so innocent hero, & Vince portrays of all things a serial killer (this was made before he did Norman Bates in the redo of Psycho. Both turn in first rate performances
Also Janeane Garafalo plays a winning FBI agent She is always good.
Scott Wilson is a quiet sheriff.
This is a film noir & for comic relief we have an overly sleepy deputy sheriff named Barney.I don't think his last name was Fife or is it now,
Even though this movie is a wee bit too long at 104 minutes, It held my interest from exciting beginning to satisfactory conclusion . It was filmed in beautiful Montana
Ratings *** (out of 4) 83 points (out of 100) IMDb 7 (out of 100
Innocent man trapped,Evil woman killed. Our hero is innocent, That is the basic plot.
As in other reincarnations the film is saved by the actors in it. Once again good acting makes a routine film seem much better than it should be,
This is a 1998 film & the 2 stars are now big name players, Both Joachim Phoenix & Vince Vaughn had only made a few films before this. & you can definitely see why they became big time players in a few years.
Joachim is our young, not so innocent hero, & Vince portrays of all things a serial killer (this was made before he did Norman Bates in the redo of Psycho. Both turn in first rate performances
Also Janeane Garafalo plays a winning FBI agent She is always good.
Scott Wilson is a quiet sheriff.
This is a film noir & for comic relief we have an overly sleepy deputy sheriff named Barney.I don't think his last name was Fife or is it now,
Even though this movie is a wee bit too long at 104 minutes, It held my interest from exciting beginning to satisfactory conclusion . It was filmed in beautiful Montana
Ratings *** (out of 4) 83 points (out of 100) IMDb 7 (out of 100