Fluch der Dunkelheit

The story is a bit incredible and real power gives way to superficiality. Does not leave a lasting umpression.

Robert Urich always made interesting roles. Here he is a blind man since four years, trying to make the best of it, which isn't easy, since disasters tend to happen around him. The first one in the film is a motorcyclist coming roaring through the traffic and plunging headlong into the street, and that's just for an introduction. Who is really killing the people around him, his neighbour the aunt of his former sweetheart, whom he had to give up because of his blindness, who still loves him, while he insists she should marry his best friend instead, Ron Perlman, whom both the audience and the police gradually learn to suspect, but there are others also, above all his therapist, the lovely Patricia Clarkson, and some other victims. Robert Urich makes a perfectly convincing character of the blind man at a constant loss and innocently unaware of all the threats around him, while his only real friend is the dog, which for some reason stays out at the most crucial moment. It's a psychological thriller, as impossible to find your way in as it is for Robert Urich as the blind man, with great sensitivity and beautiful music endowing the film with some refinement - Beethoven's moonlight sonata occurs twice. This is no action thriller but rather a more introvert challenge for intellectuals - Robert Urich is himself a professor here - a film actually for the happy few.

A blind professor's (Robert Urich) friends are being murdered. His ex-girlfriend (Lisa Eilbacher), now engaged to his best friend (Ron Perlman), wants to rekindle their romance. His therapist (Patricia Clarkson), for whom he has non-professional feelings, begins to reciprocate. Yes, it's a murder mystery with soap opera entanglements but it's a slightly better than average TV movie which makes for decent viewing on an order in dinner bad weather day.

Ron Perlman and Robert Urich both deliver fine performances and have really nice screen chemistry no problem believing these characters are brothers by friendship).

Worth a rent/buy used.

Robert Urich plays a blind man who is enmeshed in a number of murders in which he is the prime suspect. His best friends fiance is in love with him, and he is sleeping with his therapist, another woman, and eventually the friend's fiance. While trying to sort out his relationships he must find the person who murdered his friend, and find the coins that were stolen.

It is not that this movie is bad, it just isn't good in any way. There is nothing to hold the viewers attention, and the intrigue is little better than a soap opera.