Amazon.com Essentials:
Geena Davis and her former husband, director Renny Harlin,
attempted to pick up the pieces after the debacle of their box-office
disaster, Cutthroat
Island. What they came up with was this repulsive ode to
American film noir, based on a script by Shane Black (Lethal Weapon)
about an amnesiac schoolteacher (Davis) who searches for her true
identity and finds she is actually a secret agent immersed in a deadly
plot to topple the government. Mechanistic in its violence, obnoxious
in its attitude, the film makes Davis, a once-promising actress,
nothing more than a special effect. She tosses one to sadists in the
audience by allowing her character to be beaten, punched unconscious,
and tortured. The DVD
release has optional full-screen and widescreen presentations,
plus Dolby surround sound, theatrical trailer, cast information,
optional French-language soundtrack and optional Spanish
subtitles. --Tom Keogh
