Bram-5

LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU! Heh, made you look. That's what this movie is about and no matter how much you read the backstory on the web site, nothing prepares you for the end. Better than Hitchcock; something like Ruth Rendell. It's hard to shake the after-shock.

This movie seemed to me like the remake of an old 'Cagney and Lacey' plot. Dated, in a word. James Woods is too in-your-face as usual. John Travolta did a good impression of Bruce Willis, but what do you expect from two limited actors? Madeleine Stowe was underused. There were too many scenes of the 'victim' spread-eagled on the grass. And the corporal in the locker room was just too glib. Doesn't everybody know all this already? Especially after 'tailhook'? Then again, a story of, and vivid pictures of, a violent gang rape will pack 'em in, so ... Hooray for Hollywood. What did I expect?

Finally, the opening credits fit -- long, long ago in a galaxy far away, there's a place where people don't smirk or swear and and still fight for the right. I didn't think it could be done, but George Lucas did it. He took us all back to another time, when the world seemed to be okay. Thanks for the memories, George.