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Two cops, seasoned detective Garret (Lanny Rethaber), a guy who plays
by the rules, and young hotshot Davidson (Patrick Adam), are after a
serialkiller who kills his victims in particularly gruesome ways, and he's
particularly hard to catch because he doesn't follow a typical pattern or
anything. Davidson is sure the killer is the boyfriend (Shaun Gerardo) of
the first victim, and he just won't stop harrassing him - until the guy
becomes the next victim of the killer. Eventually, Garret and Davidson
come up with a (by the way pretty accurate) motive for the killings, the
killer wants to punish his victims for something they have done to him, or
for simply not following the rules, and when they find a dogtag that
identifies him as a Vietnam veteran who was on some special forces program
(where he was taught the art of torture), it doesn't take them long to
find out the killer's identity, too, one Jeffrey Walters (Steve Furedy),
who has become pretty much a derelict since the days of the Vietnam war. However,
determining the identity of the killer and actually arresting him are not
one and the same thing, after all, he was with special forces. Trailing
the killer leaves its mark on the two cops, especially Garret, who pretty
much sacrifices his marriage to get the job done, but in the end, it's a
trap set up by young hotshot Davidson that captures Walters, a trap that
almost backfires when Walters takes Davidson's psychotic girlfriend (Amy
Searcy) hostage, then manages to disarm Davidswon before Garret storms in
to save the day. As for Walters' motives: Trained as a torture machine
by the army, he eventually blew the fuse and let his aggression go to
level 11, the level when you kill out of pure hatred. Garret is supposed
to take Walters to the penitentiary, but being alone in the car with the
man who not only killed a bunch of people on his watch but also destroyed
his marriage, and who is not mocking him, causes a fuse in Garret's brain
to blow. A very interesting serialkiller movie in some respect
that's unfortunately a little uneven in others. It's interesting because
it dares to go a route rather different from most serialkiller flicks,
presenting it as a police procedural rather than an action piece, a gore
opera (though the film is still pretty bloody) and/or an overconstructed
jigsaw puzzle. And by and large, the film is very well told, with all the
plottwists in the right places, and even though the killer is known (to
the audience) right from the start, the plot still contains plenty of
tension and suspense to carry the movie. What the film lacks though is
proper character development. Sure, detective Garret is well enough drawn,
but detective Davidson is nothing but a caricature, and their relationship
tries to desperately ape the typical buddy movie formula. Also, their
adversary Walters has no character traits to him that are not unlikeable
or just plain evil. This all does in no way sink the movie, it's still
competent serialkiller entertainment, it's just a film with room for
improvement.
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