If you wanna be sarcastic this movie gives you more than one chance : (Tracey Needham) was taller and bigger than everybody !, (Charles Durning) was a 76 years old cop !?? having that one titan paunch ! So how in god's name he could manage to ride the motorcycle at the end being disguised as one of the road's patrol !!??, (James Belushi) was shorter than (Needham) so I bet they made him stand on something while he was kissing her ! Not to mention that he looked older than her too !!, and the nice loving cop (Patrick Ersgard) seemed all the time like (Tom Green)'s look-alike !?. Well, despite the fact that nearly all of them delivered such a wonderful performance yet all of them with-each-others had weak chemistry or some kind of disharmony ! On the other hand, the script was very good with the smart thrilling treatment for its main case, and those many points of view about justice (blind as helpless, or half blind to let us fulfill it by other ways than the law !) with strong characters, conflict, and some clever lines too (mostly for the character of the old detective Moe Ryan/Durning). But it wasn't that excellent too because some reasons; one of them is the hastiness. For big instance : the love story between the undercover officer (Belushi) and the hunted lawyer (Needham) was very fabricated ! Just 2 or 3 scenes with a dialogue about perfection and fighting for justice, then a night in bed !? (WAW if only life was like this !). Without any sort of deliberation, I think it wasn't a big problem for them to add some more scenes or dialogues to convince the characters so to convince us. And for small instance : considering the condition of (Durning)'s age and belly; why didn't they make him a retired detective who works now as private eye ?!, then look at the scenes of (Jobeth Williams) they were shot all in her office; that's boring if you ask me, moreover too damn TV for the cinematic sense of the story ! The direction handled the subject well but what is it with all of those strange cuts like an old movie from the 1940s or the old Star Wars' movies ! I didn't like it as a goofy element compared to the whole thing !. While the music was loyal to the atmosphere especially at the start it didn't keep up with the heat of the movie's rest. The lighting was generally excessive which made the image a dully shiny white for most of the time ! And finally that bullheaded determination to film maybe everything in close-ups as another typical TV movie ??! As if somebody will sue them if they did anything more !? I must admit that there were some exceptional factors like (Charles Durning)'s lovable performance (even his Rambo's war scream at the shooting was lively & harmonic), the beauty of (Tracey Needham); actually she was extremely sweet, dazzlingly fascinating, and madly sexy in a way I've never seen her whether before or after ! Like a rare mix of Meg Ryan, Melanie Griffith, and Marilyn Monroe yet in a very serious shape ! It's an old custom of mine to read the subtitles, but whenever there was a scene of her I didn't care about anything but her face !, and eventually this very script which could've been made for the big screen indeed (with the expensive stars, the nude sex scene !, couple of smashing explosives, and maybe a slick twist at the end !) Though this movie is a nice entertaining one with fair acting, well-done thrill, an acrid satire, and not completely having that easy happy ending also whereas the basic 2 drugs' lords ran away at last so justice (by the law or by bare hands) is not entirely perfect ! They wanted a TV night movie and they made one so justly. However if you felt a little frustration after watching then that's because your own belief that this movie wasn't quite just to its powerful potentials; they deserve more than that customary TV work.

My God what a terrible insult to the film world. The fact that I was very ill, sick off work and nothing else to watch but daytime television made it seem worse. My girlfriend bought this film, along with 3 others on one DVD for £2, so what did she expect for 50 pence a film.I hate rape scenes in a film so watching this just made me feel sicker than I allready did. So this lawyer puts this thug behind bars and he takes it personal and seeks revenge. James Belushi attracted me to it, one of the other films on this DVD was Red Surf also staring George Clooney, but both these films use the big names to attract an audience and falsley lead them down a dark tunnel with no light at the end of it. At least Red Surf starred George Clooney, Belushi made a brief cameo role in this film and was given star credit. The scene where he falls in love with her and blah blah blah, is daft, it spoils a crap movie, if that's possible, the lead women is hot though.

I thought the movie was great. I was channel surfing and found this movie as it was just starting. Usually I have to know something about a movie before I watch it-I don't like wasting my time. Charles Durning and Tracey Needham made a great team, I wish they would make a TV series about this movie. I used to watch Tracey on JAG all the time. I hope she gets more parts in TV or movies. I like seeing Jim B., I wish he had more screen time. I rate this movie 9 stars and I would see it again.

Boy, I'm a person who loves every movie I see. Usually the worse the more I seem to like it, but this movie even I couldn't sit through. I think we made it about 30 minutes. Seeing that James Belushi and JoBeth Williams were in the film made me think that it would be a well-done movie. But from the 1/2 hour that I did see, all of the budget must have been spent getting those 2 stars because everyone else seemed as though they were made out of cardboard. The music reminded me of a Batman movie. Not a good film...nope.