Troubled Waters (2006)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

John Stead

Writer:

David Robbeson (writer)

Release Date:

9 January 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Plot:

Special Agent Jennifer Beck (Jennifer Beals) is a intrepid FBI agent who is assigned to solve the case of a multimillionaire couple missing daughter...

Plot Keywords:

FBI | Adultery | Clairvoyant | Betrayal | Kidnapping

Cast

Jennifer Beals	...	Special Agent Jennifer Beck
Jonathan Goad	...	Agent Andy Hunter
David Storch	...	Mike Waters
Shauna Black	...	Julia Waters
Stuart Hughes	...	Ben Tomlinson
Olivia Ballantyne	...	Megan Waters
Sharon Lewis	...	Agent Tina Davis (as Sharon Lewis)
Laura Vandervoort	...	Carolyn
Nicole Dos Santos	...	Maria
Frank Moore	...	Special Agent Turner
Matt Birman	...	Special Agent Stokes
Stewart Arnott	...	Doctor
Christopher Cordell	...	Agent Reynolds (as Chris Cordell)

Runtime:

95 min | USA:88 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Canada:14A | USA:R | Singapore:M18

Filming Locations:

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Company:

235 Films

Goofs:

Continuity: In the beginning Julia Waters is spreading peanut butter on toast. She then puts the lid back on the jar. The next shot shows her spreading more peanut butter and the jar open.

Psychic detective

A mediocre movie at best. The plot has promise – kidnapping, adultery, and a psychic FBI agent – but something falls apart in the execution of the concept for a film into an actual theatrical event. Must be the screen writing. The story drags at times and it seems like an eternity before the heroes can figure out what the viewer has already determined as obvious. And that is with the aid of a psychic detective – the scenes where she senses what has occurred are interesting but do not result in moving the storyline forward by leaps and bounds. But then the summing up at the end dumps a whole lot of facts on the viewer that seems to come from nowhere. Then too there is the parallel plot of medical problems with the heroine that remains unresolved at the end.

Let's review what is good about the movie. Shauna Black is certainly nice to look at but one can only wish that Laura Vandervoort would have had a larger part. The "ending" that opens the movie is revealed to be an incomplete truth about three quarters the way through and the real ending could have been a real show stopper. Jennifer Beals does yeoman's work with the material she has been handed – she deserves better. Finally the movie yields the best-dressed software company secretary in many years.

Not much to recommend here.