When a movie about a serial killer has more belly laughs than your average comedy, you know there is something deeply wrong with it.
Poor Scott Glenn plays a cop hunting for a mysterious killer who abducts children and animals, including giraffes (don't ask); in a truly ludicrous narrative choice, the detective's annoying kid cooperates with the investigation, thanks to a computer with a level of AI which would startle Alan Turing. That's what Silence of the Lambs was sorely missing: a precocious child supporting Clarence Starling!
The climax is the funniest part, as the madman shows his version of Noah's Ark neatly built in a cave next to a canyon, waiting for a second flood. During those last scenes I laughed so hard I almost died. When the killer screamed "I have brought thee even the giraffes!" (or something to that extent), tears were running down my cheeks and I was gasping for breath. Add to this one of the most ridiculous red herrings ever seen: an escaped Nazi general who is still strutting around in full SS uniform a good fifty years after WW2. Yeah, seriously.
Too bad that, while the funny bits are absolutely priceless, there are also long stretches of boredom.
3/10
Poor Scott Glenn plays a cop hunting for a mysterious killer who abducts children and animals, including giraffes (don't ask); in a truly ludicrous narrative choice, the detective's annoying kid cooperates with the investigation, thanks to a computer with a level of AI which would startle Alan Turing. That's what Silence of the Lambs was sorely missing: a precocious child supporting Clarence Starling!
The climax is the funniest part, as the madman shows his version of Noah's Ark neatly built in a cave next to a canyon, waiting for a second flood. During those last scenes I laughed so hard I almost died. When the killer screamed "I have brought thee even the giraffes!" (or something to that extent), tears were running down my cheeks and I was gasping for breath. Add to this one of the most ridiculous red herrings ever seen: an escaped Nazi general who is still strutting around in full SS uniform a good fifty years after WW2. Yeah, seriously.
Too bad that, while the funny bits are absolutely priceless, there are also long stretches of boredom.
3/10