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Review:
 It’s
said that great British actors will do anything for enough money.
This is the case with Ben Kingsley, who gives a great performance
in a rather sucky serial killer thriller.
We start out with a fat dude reading a magazine in a diner
somewhere in Arizona. Along comes Benjamin O’Ryan(Kingsley), and
shows him his art collection. The fat dude is scared. Is it
because the art is so bad or that he has a guilty secret that
O’Ryan has found?
FBI Special Agent Tom Mackelway (Aaron Eckhart) has just come
back to work from a six month suspension because of the way he
extradited serial killer Harold Speck(Kevin Chamberlin) from
Mexico. He’s having headaches and visions for some bizarre reason
and no one at the FBI seems to be sympathetic. But then the fat
dude’s body is found in a car right smack on the New
Mexico/Arizona border.
Our hero is on the case. Not only that, but his ex-partner Fran
Kulok(Carrie Anne-Moss) is brought in on the case.
So "Mulder and Scully" go around following clues and discover
O’Ryan’s identity right away. It seems that he was also an FBI
agent and he has superpowers. When Speck is found murdered we
discover that O’Ryan is actually a vigilante hunting down serial
killers. He also likes to taunt Tom by fax when he isn’t using his
ESP and art skills to track down the worse guys.
Writers Zak Penn and Billy Ray have managed to make a tight
little "X-files" ripoff that for the most part works. It’s dumb as
a post for the most part as our hero follows our villain who’s
tracking a monster driving a very large truck.
Once the plot is established, this is just a chase. We know
what’s going to happen, it’s just how it does and if we care.
The acting is quite good. Kingsley is always brilliant, and so
are Eckhart and Moss. Now only if they could get a better script.
Eric Lurio
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