It's ironic to watch a movie of himself fully healthy and playing a disabled chair bound person. Not soon after this movie one of the movie screen most loved actors Christopher Reeve met a tragic fate which led him to be paralysed and severely shortened a very fit and healthy individual life by several decades passing away in 2004 at the relatively young age of 52. After an incredibly tough 9 year battle with his paralysis. A lot of the reason he was able to cope is because of the loving support of his wonderful wife Dana Reeve. It's one of the few movies probably the only movie where this wonderful husband and wife couple of Christopher Reeve and Dana Reeve acted together in the same movie.
She herself not long after Reeve's death contracted cancer and passed away in 2006 at the relatively young age of 44. My opinion is that she and Reeve were extremely close. Reeve's passing may have hastened an early death of Dana Reeve too. It's incredibly tragic that two good and beautiful people departed this world so early and denied us many more years of their great talent and company. RIP Christopher Reeve and Dana Reeve. You both are very much missed who are old enough to remember the wonderful Christopher Reeve. However Christopher Reeve will live long after his passing in his movies.
The movie itself is very good and Christopher Reeve is excellent in it too. It is a movie however that deals with very dark subject matter. Of things that can go on in affluent suburbia. Christopher Reeve plays a well off chief police officer named Dempsey who lives in a house in an affluent suburb who leads a team to apprehend a gang of dangerous and armed drug smugglers. Unfortunately the raid doesn't go according to plan and Christopher Reeve while trying to apprehend a drug dealer gets shot below his bullet proof vest and hits his spinal cord paralysing him for life from the waist down.
The paralysis however brings about a change in Dempsey. Apparently he was always aware that his wife and his brother were getting it on so to speak. The paralysis however brought out a jealousy which gave him the motive to commit a crime. Being an ace police officer he knew how to set everything up and cover up his tracks from the law.
One of his colleagues was suspicious and gets on his trail. At the end of the movie we see Dempsey evade justice and walk free. The final scene shows him looking at a photo of his wife and brother and grieving for their loss. Probably realising the gravity of what he has done. Denying himself the love of a brother and wife due to his dark nature getting the better of him. I was uncomfortable with the subject matter. But Reeve and Kim Katrall's performances in particular were excellent. It is a shame I did not hear about this movie before I was a twenty something in the 1990s and saw a lot of movies from that decade but somehow missed it. The 1990s was also economically a very good decade for America and we see that reflected in this movie as a Chief Police officer can now afford to live well in an affluent middle class American suburb. I give this 8 out of 10.
She herself not long after Reeve's death contracted cancer and passed away in 2006 at the relatively young age of 44. My opinion is that she and Reeve were extremely close. Reeve's passing may have hastened an early death of Dana Reeve too. It's incredibly tragic that two good and beautiful people departed this world so early and denied us many more years of their great talent and company. RIP Christopher Reeve and Dana Reeve. You both are very much missed who are old enough to remember the wonderful Christopher Reeve. However Christopher Reeve will live long after his passing in his movies.
The movie itself is very good and Christopher Reeve is excellent in it too. It is a movie however that deals with very dark subject matter. Of things that can go on in affluent suburbia. Christopher Reeve plays a well off chief police officer named Dempsey who lives in a house in an affluent suburb who leads a team to apprehend a gang of dangerous and armed drug smugglers. Unfortunately the raid doesn't go according to plan and Christopher Reeve while trying to apprehend a drug dealer gets shot below his bullet proof vest and hits his spinal cord paralysing him for life from the waist down.
The paralysis however brings about a change in Dempsey. Apparently he was always aware that his wife and his brother were getting it on so to speak. The paralysis however brought out a jealousy which gave him the motive to commit a crime. Being an ace police officer he knew how to set everything up and cover up his tracks from the law.
One of his colleagues was suspicious and gets on his trail. At the end of the movie we see Dempsey evade justice and walk free. The final scene shows him looking at a photo of his wife and brother and grieving for their loss. Probably realising the gravity of what he has done. Denying himself the love of a brother and wife due to his dark nature getting the better of him. I was uncomfortable with the subject matter. But Reeve and Kim Katrall's performances in particular were excellent. It is a shame I did not hear about this movie before I was a twenty something in the 1990s and saw a lot of movies from that decade but somehow missed it. The 1990s was also economically a very good decade for America and we see that reflected in this movie as a Chief Police officer can now afford to live well in an affluent middle class American suburb. I give this 8 out of 10.