Criminal Intent

As the plot for a film goes, it was good and gripping. However, as others have commented, with the exception of a few, the acting was not exactly master-class. In particular, Vanessa Angel - is she really a professional actress ? or did she do it for a dare, and as for the wig she was wearing ............. Linda Purl certainly held the film together, and did her best with a script that could have been a bit more "meatier". I felt the camera angles were "interesting" at times, and thought the cameraman was attempting to speed things up a bit with his whizzing around the room moments. Overall, the plot made for good watching, but could have been made even better with a superior cast list.

Utterly the most painful movie I have ever suffered through. I kept hoping that it would improve since it had Linda Purl; however, it just kept spiraling down hill. If you want something more entertaining try a root canal. This could have been a great movie if they had bothered to invest some money into actors who could carry this type of story line. It was just an endless parade of pretty faces "mugging" for the camera. Nor will it become one of those "bad" films that later becomes faddish due to its comically bad acting. This was just plain bad. Even after a while Linda's normally superb acting was lost in the damage. The sad statement is that each of these actors have done superb work in other films yet they just didn't have the edge to carry this story line.

Watched the first scene, and none of it made any sense. #1. Why would the police be the only ones called to the scene, I mean its a stabbing. You would think just maybe, paramedics might be a more important in this situation. #2. The 911 operator gives completely false instructions on how to perform CPR. You don't breath into the mouth first, you do that after at least 30 hard pumps into the chest. #3. Why in the world would you pull out the knife as you hear police sirens, instead of pulling it out while she was dying? This was all just unbelievably stupid and so I fortunately decided not to waste 2 hours of my life watching this crap. 3 minutes is all it took to fail, yikes.

I usually like most movies, I'm easy to please and I tend to give 10 stars if the movie fulfils my expectations and entertains me, but this one, well it was not entertaining. It was one of the worst movies I've seen. For an hour we are led to believe one thing, and in the last 30 minutes we discover that we have been misled and something totally different is going on. I felt fooled. Then we are treated to so many imaginary theories of what may have transpired, like imaginary "flashbacks" which add nothing to the story, they are "what ifs" as the investigators try to imagine what really happened. Various details aren't even believable. The motives aren't convincing either. Nothing could save this movie, it was like hard work trying to follow all the twists and turns at the end, it was more work than pleasure. Can't recommend this flop, it's worth less than 3 stars but I'm trying to be generous, as some might like it.

This movie features Linda Purl who has a mousy looking face and Vanessa Angel whose face now looks like a big bloated elephant. The only thing missing is an appearance by Jamie Luner, whose face looks like Donald Duck! What a fabulous trio that would have been; WHAT BEASTS! WHAT A CAST OF CHARACTERS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN!