What could have been a very interesting and intense movie fails to hold its premise to the end. The film has excellent suspenseful moments, especially in the opening scene, then tries something new as the killer is presented in sympathetic light, and the obsessed investigator is more and more demonized. The final shot of this intriguing build up of drama comes when the killer hides from his pursuer in the garbage dump.
Apparently it is in this dump where he happens upon the idea to become a killer again while losing the third dimension to his character. Whatever studio executive demanded a "thrillfest" ending be tacked onto this movie instead of following the film's natural progression deprived us of what could have been a very interesting - as well as scary - movie.
Apparently it is in this dump where he happens upon the idea to become a killer again while losing the third dimension to his character. Whatever studio executive demanded a "thrillfest" ending be tacked onto this movie instead of following the film's natural progression deprived us of what could have been a very interesting - as well as scary - movie.