Charles Durning, Charles Haid, Christopher Wynne

Detective Lloyd Hopkins (James Woods) is in pursuit of a killer who's spreading terror on the streets of Los Angeles. But doing his job requires Hopkins to be immersed in a world populated by prostitu...( read more  read more... )tes, drug addicts and thieves, a world through which the hard-edged cop moves with ease. At home in society's underbelly, the amoral detective runs the investigation his way, unrestrained by rules. Lesley Ann Warren and Charles Durning co-star.

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R, 111 min.

Directed by: James B. Harris

Release Date: March 1, 1988

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DVD Release Date: October 4, 2005

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  • June 11, 2008
    James Woods plays an unconventional cop on the trail of a serial killer in this purely by the numbers thriller from the 80s. In fact the script shows just as little imagination as the title; it's so formulaic it borders on the absurd. Burnt out cop who doesn't play by the rules, ...( read more)chewed out by his captain, internal affairs investigation, vicious serial killer yadda yadda yadda. There's nothing here we haven't seen a million times before. It's not as trashy and gratuitously violent as many mainstream 80s thrillers, but it's unpleasantly sleazy, Woods' character comes across as a wholly unsympathetic and self centred ass-hole, and Lesley-Anne Warren's so-called feminist is so sappy and naive you just want to shake some sense into her. Add the usual mix of B-movie stalwarts in the supporting cast and you have a typical Channel 5 afternoon TV movie with more swearing. Give it a miss.
  • June 16, 2008
    Daft plot. Ridiculous denouement. James Wood is his usual engaging self though.
  • June 12, 2008
    wow i have just seen this 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good thriller movie...the director of this Drama, Mystery & Suspense movie had done a great job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie...this has a good cast of actors/actr...( read more)essess throughout this movie...i think that james woods plays a good part throughout this movie...this is a thriller movie from the 1980's n this has a good cast of characters throughout this movie..this is a good thriller movie because you never know what's going 2 happen throughout this movie
  • August 13, 2007
    Referred to as the part that James Woods was born to play, An impressive dark and gritty thriller with Woods living up to the above reference.
  • January 18, 2007
    great action-thriller
  • January 10, 2007
    ALRIGHT FILM...WORTH WATHCHING.

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