This film was recommended to me last year and it finally arrived on rental a couple of weeks ago. The plot is a standard crime one: someone's bumping off lots of women and leaving them lying around in strange poses with...wait for it...bloody grafitti scrawled on the wall above. The good cop, Tom Skerritt, and the bad one who looks like Daniel Baldwin reckon it can only be a chess player called Christopher Lambert, in spite of a total lack of evidence to support their hyporthesis. He was such an atrocious actor in this film though, that it's not suprising they weren't convinced by his alibis. Along the way the police psychologist ends up in bed with the chess player, blah, blah, yawn. I think this was one of the worst directed films in cinema history, with all the characters giving the impression that they had only read the lines once before filming and that they had never ever acted before, let alone rehearsed or been through more than one take on every scene. Having said that, it was visually stunning in places, in blacks, greys, whites and creams and with some scenes lifted straight out of a Vettriano beach painting. I wish they had a thumbs down in the review box, or a zero rating. If this was on TV at no extra charge, there was nothing else on and you were bored out of your mind then this would be OK to watch, otherwise save your money and spend it on something more useful like petrol. Diesel is now £1.329 a gallon, it cost me £62 for three-quarter tank yesterday.
That could have been interesting doen the right way.
It was but his acting was really baaaaaaaaaaaaaad!
We ended up watching the rest of it another night - I can't remember the name of it now. The content of it was quite interesting so we sat through and watched it for that. I am descended from the Jews who were expelled from Spain. Weird huh? heheehehehe
Its not so much the Jewish community - even though they were jews, they called themselves Spanish because they had been born there etc...I am descended from them. We are descended from our spanish ancestors (with Jewish background) is probably a better way of putting it. There is a statue of a poet/writer (who was one of the Jews expelled) in Holland that is apparently one of my ancestors. Paul took a picture of him when he was there for me. I want to learn Spanish so bad because I want to go back to the town they came from in Spain. Maybe when I get brave enough to go on the plane with the kids again :0
Funny, being here one imagines most people in the Philippines speak Spanish, but did you miss out because you moved to Australia?
Well years ago - it was compulsory to learn Spanish (it was part of the curriculum) but then they got rid of that so the new generation of filipinos don't really speak it (unless they specifically learn it). You could say, it used to be the national language and then they made it Tagalog so now everyone learns Tagalog.
I liked Christopher Lambert in Highlander. I have seen this movie but it didnt make the impact and you are right about it being on TV and me hyper-bored.
This is a relatively old film (1992 if i remember correctly), I remember seeing it on first release and saying much the same as you have here. An atrocious film on almost all levels. Not even worthy of the cheap DVD racks at Tesco.
It was about the prosecution of Jews in Spain..hmmmm 
