Gloomy thriller/mystery starring Donald Sutherland as Jay Mallory, a cool and calculating hitman. When his wife Celandine (Francine Racette) disappears he thinks she has left him, as their relationship was stormy at best. He's offered another hit but after a meeting with an associate he thinks his last hit has something to do with his wifes disappearance. He's told to kill a man called Deverell, but at first refuses. It turns out that Deverell (Christopher Plummer) is the organisations boss and he knows that Mallory is there to kill him. He takes Mallory's gun off him and his about to shoot him when Mallory fatally knives him. Back home he finds Celandine has returned, it was her that requested Mallory to kill Deverell as she was having an affair with him and had discovered that he was Mallory's boss. Out shopping Mallory is bumped off at the end of the film by an unseen assailant.
Decent film spoiled only by flashbacks, great cast though that also includes John Hurt, Davids Warner and Hemmings, Peter Bowles and Virginia McKenna.
Decent film spoiled only by flashbacks, great cast though that also includes John Hurt, Davids Warner and Hemmings, Peter Bowles and Virginia McKenna.