Chicago homicide detectives Prudhome and Hollingsworth are assigned to investigate a murder . Both become entangled in the scheme of a mesianic serial killer whose goal is to recreate the body of Christ by dismembering members of murdered corpses , adding extreme bloodletting. This is a thrilling film about two homicide detectives (Christopher Lambert and Leland Orser) in desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as a holy sacrifice . There are various suspects but eventually seems the crimes were the work of the same man , a weird person murdering mercilessly a lot of people . Two stubborn detectives in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi scoff at difficult efforts to get inside the mind of a killer...There is an evil which I have seen under the sun , and it is common among men . Ecclesiastes 6:1. Be afraid. For he is coming.
This is a nice thriller in which serial killers and mismatched cops overcoming antagonism , including thrills , chills , noisy action , violence and loads of blood and gore . The typical crime movie plot in ¨David Fincher's Seven¨ style blending genres to grim and gripping effect , dealing with two police inspectors tracking a serial murderer who is killing men , this time for a main purport , to use parts of his victims to reassemble the body of Christ in time for Easter Sunday Resurrection . Our protagonists slow voyage from claustrophobic murk into blinding light and rain making for a vivid dramatic metaphor . A sinister and eerie movie with dismal and gloomy environment , in which the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir . It packs a great number of scenes with plenty of gory violence , these frames have been shortened for the US version where went straight to DVD . It is visually striking , in fact filmmaker Mulcahy gained fame directing films with stunning visuals.
It contains a moving and rousing musical score by James McGrath . As well as a somber and tenebrous cinematography by Jonathan Freeman . The motion picture was professionally directed by Russell Mulcahy who often cast Christopher Lambert , in fact this is 3rd film Lambert did with Russell Mulcahy after the first two Highlander I and II . The movie was theatrically exhibited in most of Europe , Asia , Africa and Australia in the United States was direct to video . Russell Mulcahy is a good filmmaker , a craftsman with a long career , he began shooting video clips for such famous artists as Elton John , Duran Duran, The Buggles , Culture Club , and Bonnie Tyler. He is also well known for feature films , starting off with the comedy Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979) , the horror film Razorback (1984), the spectacular sword and sorcery of Highlanders (1986) , followed by the sequel Highlanders II (1991). He directed Denzel Washington and John Lithgow in the violent Ricochet (1991), Russell made a film version of the comic book : The shadow (1994) with Alec Baldwin and took the helm for Tale of the Mummy (1998) . In recent years Mulcahy has been involved in directing several telemovies , episodes of TV shows and other various films of all kinds of genres , including Queer as Folk (2000), 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story (2004), Teen wolf , The mysterious island (2005) , The curse of the tomb Tutankamon (2006) , Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) , Crash and Burn (2007) , King Scorpion 2 (2008) , Grimm (2010) , Adventures of Errol Flynn (2018) , among others . The picture will appeal to Christopher Lambert fans . Rating : 6.5/10 . Acceptable and decent sinister thriller .
