This psychological thriller has been screened on a main Romanian TV channel at least two times:12 years ago (when it has made some impression on the Eric Roberts fans),and this year.
As I said,12 years ago Love Is a Gun did not pass unnoticed;I remember discussing it with an Eric Roberts fan and how she found it interesting .This thing is certain:in Eric Roberts career's table,Love Is a Gun stands out as offering him a large role--even in a cheap B thriller.
All three leading actors were interesting,and the thing could have been fine:a man's addiction to a femme 'fatale.
In its class of B thrillers from the '90s (and I was a huge consumer of such shows),Love Is a Gun is conspicuous for the quality of Eric Roberts' role (the role,his creation,not the character as the writer conceived it,or rather didn't ...);this increases the impression of uncanniness given by "LIG",as all the other characters\roles are card-board-made,with only Roberts trying,striving to get something out of his role.So,12 years ago at least 2 persons in Romania,me and an Eric Roberts fan young woman have seen "LIG" as an Eric Roberts movie and also as a deserved treat (I was less satisfied,though,as I expected an erotic thriller and found the sex too poor ...).
Eric Roberts is one of the actors that passed through the '90s with an abundant harvest of such cheap B thrillers,and this is better than no movies at all (e.g.,Rourke sank lower than this level!).Formerly I saw in this class of movies mostly the clichés, flaws, shortcomings, deficiencies and tricks;now I see them as a way of keeping one's place on the sets;and I do not blame the actors anymore for accepting such scripts,etc..
David Hartwell directed only this feature movie;I guess no one regrets it.
"LIG" has,in fact,no script,and almost everything remains unexplained ( Preston's insanity,the things told by her husband ;Roberts' past,his dreams,his watch;the supernatural side--because there is such a thing,too ...).Alan Roberts' Save Me (1993)(with Lysette Anthony,Michael Ironside,Harry Hamlin and Olivia Hussey) had a better script;Fred Olen Ray's Possessed by the Night (1994) (with Shannon Tweed and Sandahl Bergman) had a better script;other Shannon Tweed and Drew Barrymore films (Poison Ivy ,Sketch Artist ,The Amy Fisher Story ,Doppelganger ) all had better scripts.
As I said,12 years ago Love Is a Gun did not pass unnoticed;I remember discussing it with an Eric Roberts fan and how she found it interesting .This thing is certain:in Eric Roberts career's table,Love Is a Gun stands out as offering him a large role--even in a cheap B thriller.
All three leading actors were interesting,and the thing could have been fine:a man's addiction to a femme 'fatale.
In its class of B thrillers from the '90s (and I was a huge consumer of such shows),Love Is a Gun is conspicuous for the quality of Eric Roberts' role (the role,his creation,not the character as the writer conceived it,or rather didn't ...);this increases the impression of uncanniness given by "LIG",as all the other characters\roles are card-board-made,with only Roberts trying,striving to get something out of his role.So,12 years ago at least 2 persons in Romania,me and an Eric Roberts fan young woman have seen "LIG" as an Eric Roberts movie and also as a deserved treat (I was less satisfied,though,as I expected an erotic thriller and found the sex too poor ...).
Eric Roberts is one of the actors that passed through the '90s with an abundant harvest of such cheap B thrillers,and this is better than no movies at all (e.g.,Rourke sank lower than this level!).Formerly I saw in this class of movies mostly the clichés, flaws, shortcomings, deficiencies and tricks;now I see them as a way of keeping one's place on the sets;and I do not blame the actors anymore for accepting such scripts,etc..
David Hartwell directed only this feature movie;I guess no one regrets it.
"LIG" has,in fact,no script,and almost everything remains unexplained ( Preston's insanity,the things told by her husband ;Roberts' past,his dreams,his watch;the supernatural side--because there is such a thing,too ...).Alan Roberts' Save Me (1993)(with Lysette Anthony,Michael Ironside,Harry Hamlin and Olivia Hussey) had a better script;Fred Olen Ray's Possessed by the Night (1994) (with Shannon Tweed and Sandahl Bergman) had a better script;other Shannon Tweed and Drew Barrymore films (Poison Ivy ,Sketch Artist ,The Amy Fisher Story ,Doppelganger ) all had better scripts.