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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Carl Franklin
Writer (WGA):
David Collard (written by)
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Release Date:
3 October 2003 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
How do you solve a murder when all the evidence points to you. more
Plot:
A Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 6 nominations more
User Comments:
Enjoyable enough little film but nothing special more (137 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Denzel Washington ... Matthias Lee Whitlock

Eva Mendes ... Alex Diaz Whitlock

Sanaa Lathan ... Ann Merai Harrison

Dean Cain ... Chris Harrison

John Billingsley ... Chae

Robert Baker ... Tony Dalton

Alex Carter ... Paul Cabot

Antoni Corone ... Deputy Baste

Terry Loughlin ... Agent Stark

Nora Dunn ... Dr. Donovan

James Murtaugh ... Dr. Frieland
Peggy Sheffield ... Judy Anderson
Evelyn Brooks ... Judy's Mom
Eric Hissom ... Hotel Clerk

Tom Hillmann ... Living Gift Salesman (as Tom Hilmann)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
105 min | Canada:114 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Boca Grande, Florida, USA more

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Trivia:
Director Carl Franklin's name appears on the phone/credit card records. more
Goofs:
Miscellaneous: Chief Withlock has apparantly been chief of police for quite a long time and Dr. Frieland has been a doctor for 10 years in the only hospital in town. But when they bump into each other they don't seem to know each other, despite the fact that chief Whitlock's picture has been on the front page of the paper. It has to be that Dr. Frieland does not read newspapers or he does not live in Banyan Keys. more
Quotes:
Matt Lee Whitlock: I gave her the Scarcetti money.
Chae: Godd...
Matt Lee Whitlock: SHHH.
Chae: Would you have given it to me if I slept with you?
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Movie Connections:
References "Dragnet" (1951) more
Soundtrack:
Let Love more

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17 out of 24 people found the following comment useful.
Enjoyable enough little film but nothing special, 23 August 2004
Author: bob the moo from Birmingham, UK

Matt Lee Whitlock is the chief of police in a town in Florida. He has an ex-wife on the job and a girlfriend dieing of cancer. When Ann tells him that her husband has changed the details of her life insurance policy, Matt agrees to be named the new beneficiary in order to keep any payout safe. Meanwhile, under pressure to help her treatment, Matt takes drug money from the police safe however, when Ann and her husband are both killed in an arson attack on their home a murder investigation is launched – with Matt's ex-wife Alex heading it up. Initially quick to cover all links between him and Ann, Matt soon finds that all the clues are starting to point to him and realises that he is being framed.

Despite a solid (and sexy) cast, this looked too much like an average crime thriller to bother me to go to the cinema. However on DVD I decided to give it a go over the weekend as it seemed more suited to the small screen. Indeed the plot is no great shakes and is essentially a series of little set pieces on the way to a twist that was so apparent that the film doesn't even really deliver it with any great effort. However this is not to say it is no good, but just that it is nothing particularly special. The direction is good and it really helps the film keep a good sense of pace in the way the camera spins around in even the office environment but really it is the cast that make this stand out from the many other crime thrillers that never make it to the cinema.

Washington may well be slumming it here (he criticised it because he said all he did was run) but he holds the attention really well. His character doesn't really act like he should do and sometimes he is just plain wrong but Washington is suitably frantic and sweaty like a man hemmed in on all sides. Mendes is enjoyable even if she has no real character to speak of either, while Lathan rounds out the sex appeal with an OK performance but hardly the femme fatale that she should have been. Cain does better than he usually does and credit to him that he does manage to hold his own with Washington. Generally none of the lead three really act at the level that they can but their presence makes it more interesting.

Overall, my (and most viewers) assumptions were mostly right – it is an enjoyable little thriller but not one that is really worth hunting down. The big name cast are sexy and do reasonably well with the little they are given and director Franklin injects more pace that it probably deserved and the end result is a solid enough little film but not one that really does anything special.

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