This thriller by director Jennifer Lynch has just a little bit of the wierdness her dad, David Lynch, is known for, but with much less of a surreal tone and a script that goes downhill fast around the midway point. Julia Ormond and Bill Pullman are FBI agents who take over the investigation of a small-town murder spree. Some flashily edited interplay follows with the local cops, who mostly resent the agents, and with the witnesses being interviewed, who include a precocious girl and a wasted couple. But eventually things get way over the top. Typical are a couple of the cops, who spend their days shooting out the tires of passing motorists, then pulling guns on them. We are supposed to believe they can repeatedly get away with this. The mystery’s solution may or may not be predictable, but it’s not especially convincing, or subtle.
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viewed 4/4/09 at Prince Music Theater (Philadelphia Film Festival) and reviewed 5/8/09
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