Lucas Davenport is white, not black. Stupid casting decision and not anywhere near related to the series.Bizarre. It's like casting Pee Wee Herman to play Shaft.What were they thinking?Why do movie makers do this time and again?No one who likes the books wants to see changes in the characters or story lines.Don't make stuff up or re-write stories to be more PC.What would the writers think about this? I can't believe Sandford signed off on this piece of crap.If a character is a white male in the series, don't cast the movie with a black female. Keep the gender and race the way it's written. That's as bad as watching revisionist Robin Hood stories with Maid Marian running around Sherwood kicking tail like some warrior. Never happened. Wouldn't happen.Stop this PC garbage.

This film is very dark, and is a far cry from any of the forgettable "Disease of The Week" telefilms that many have come to love. The photography and acting were solid and John Sanford's weak playboy character of Lucas Davenport was made more complex and much more interesting in the film version. Edgy film making and brutal scenes will bother some. Many local ABC affils. did not air the film because they felt it was offensive.Great TV film! LaSalle does well

Although the ABC version of Mind Prey was fairly entertaining, I was nevertheless disappointed by the writers' characterization of Lucas Davenport. The Eriq LaSalle version has almost no similarity to the character as carefully developed by the Prey author, John Sandford.If this does become a series, I would certainly watch again.And did I hear Davenport say "Minnesota PD"? What gives with that?

If you are a fan of John Sandford's awesome Prey novels, you will NOT like this movie. Even though I don't consider myself a purist, Eric LaSalle has taken way too many liberties in adapting this great novel to suit his needs/wants. (I thought I saw him name somewhere as a Producer).If you haven't read any of Sandford's books, start now. Don't let the disappointment of this Hollywood-ized version lead you to believe that Sandford is just another hack.The only two characters in the TV movie that even closely resembled the picture I had in my mind's eye are Bill MacDonald as Detective Sloan and Jayne Eastwood as Police Chief Roux and their characters were barely developed to the point where I could like them as much as their parchment-dwelling counterparts.One of the reasons I like the characters in the novels is that they are real. LaSalle's Lucas Davenport is just another TV cop who is Superman - doing everything himself, surrounded by cops who would be lost without him.In case you hadn't noticed, I didn't like this movie. Within the first five minutes, I was tempted to turn it off. Then, I decided that I wanted to write this review, so I struggled through it for the sake of 'knowing what I was writing about.' If you are tempted to see this as a re-run, don't. Get the book. Better yet, get Rules Of Prey (the first of nine Lucas Davenport novels by Sandford thus far) and start the journey the right way. Hmph.