Good intentions doesn't always make a good movie, and while there are a lot of good things here, there are also way too many to keep it from being straightforward. It focuses on a very tough cop played by Donna Mills who is brought in to be a part of a special case. That ends up getting her framed for murder and when she is found passed out in the desert is taken in by doctor Robert Reed to message her back to health. She becomes involved in the play of the local Native American tribes, particularly an adorable little boy played by Panchito Gómez.
The scene-stealing Gomez takes over the film at the hour mark, peaking in on Mills as she's recovering while in Reed's Hospital. The first part of the film deals with her investigation which leads to the death of her father, Andrew Dugan, and that's after she shot and wakes up in the hospital, having been framed for the murder of a colleague to discredit the evidence that she has discovered. You can't help it like Mills in this. She takes no prisoners unless it's someone that she manages to shove into a set of bushes in the park after they try to mug her, and she is very funny while taking on men allegedly twice her strength.
Fans of "The Young and the Restless" will be thrilled to see Jess Walton and Quinn Redeker here, although they do not work together. Walton is very funny as Mills' cop roommate, while Redeker plays a sleazy mafia type whom Mills smooth talks. Another good performance is by Will Sampson as Gomez's uncle, and there's also Jeffrey Lewis as a sleazy local who threatens the young boy in a vial way. This would have been a good film if it decided to deal with one plot or the other, but the two together make it feel like two different movies. Perhaps part one should have been expanded another half an hour and the story involving in Gomez and read expanded as a sequel.
The scene-stealing Gomez takes over the film at the hour mark, peaking in on Mills as she's recovering while in Reed's Hospital. The first part of the film deals with her investigation which leads to the death of her father, Andrew Dugan, and that's after she shot and wakes up in the hospital, having been framed for the murder of a colleague to discredit the evidence that she has discovered. You can't help it like Mills in this. She takes no prisoners unless it's someone that she manages to shove into a set of bushes in the park after they try to mug her, and she is very funny while taking on men allegedly twice her strength.
Fans of "The Young and the Restless" will be thrilled to see Jess Walton and Quinn Redeker here, although they do not work together. Walton is very funny as Mills' cop roommate, while Redeker plays a sleazy mafia type whom Mills smooth talks. Another good performance is by Will Sampson as Gomez's uncle, and there's also Jeffrey Lewis as a sleazy local who threatens the young boy in a vial way. This would have been a good film if it decided to deal with one plot or the other, but the two together make it feel like two different movies. Perhaps part one should have been expanded another half an hour and the story involving in Gomez and read expanded as a sequel.