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Murder Story
Netherlands/UK 1989
produced by
Tom Reeve for Reeve and Partners, Elsevier-Vendex, Contracts International
directed by Eddie Arno, Markus Innocenti
starring Christopher Lee, Alexis Denisof, Stacia Burton, Bruce Boa, Jeff Harding, Kate Harper, William Jongeneel, Michael Krass, Marie Stillin, Garrick Hagon, David Swatling, Pamela Teves, Bill Bailey, Petra Stork, George Isherwood, Natasja Kloosterman, Douglas Stirrat, Joop Le Belle, Hetty Van Ede, Miriam Slisser, Josephine Visser, Jonathan Silverman
written by Eddie Arno, Markus Innocenti, music by Wayne Bickerton
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Tony (Alexis Denisof), a young wannabe writer, meets his hero, noted
author Willard Hope (Christopher Lee), at a book signing, and as the two
start discussing writing based on newspaper clippings, they stumble upon
some reports about two murders that don't quite match up ... and, more out
of curiosity than anything else, they start investigating - and stumble
into a big espionage plot about a killed scientist (Bill Bailey) who could
have found the greatest power resource since the discovery of atomic power
... or he could just have been the biggest fraud. Anyways, this all
leads to all kinds of psychotic agents getting on Tony's and Hope's trail,
all of them US-agents, but not all of them good guys, and eventually, Hope
is even bumped off, and Tony is only left alive because he is unimportant
enough. Still, Tony, now accompanied by his girlfriend (Stacia Burton)
pushes on, and after a series of chases and the like, gouvernment agent
Miss Swann (Kate Harper) appears on the scene to sort everything out. Failed
thriller based on too weak a premise - a boy and his writer-hero do
research for a book and get into a genuine espionage plot - to sustain too
much suspense and devoiding itself from too much of an effect by quite a
few inexplicable (and uninteresting) twists and turns too many. Add to
that a directorial that is at best functional, anc you are left with very
little. The only scene that's actually memorable in this film is that of
an agent breaking into a house by chainsawing down a tree in front of it -
but even that's botched up by the film's weak direction, which is a pity.
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