Alison Eastwood is a solid B-list actress. She's not going to win any Oscars for this kind of work, but there's a reason she keeps getting hired. Quite simply, she brings home the bacon.The reason the so-called occult mysticism is dropped early in the movie is explained quite clearly by the unfolding plot. There's a little celeb skin for those who go for that.Judd Nelson's character is a non-entity who feeds the cops information; although it's the first time I've seen an FBI priest in a movie. I suspect actor John Rhys-Davies has fallen on hard times; this is not up to the A-list movie roles he has landed so far. He looks like he has lost a lot of weight in recent years; his character was believable, though somewhat thinly-spread (no pun intended).It's a murder mystery, a serial killer movie, and has an interesting twist at the end. If you're hoping for the next Sixth Sense, don't bother. But if you like solid made-for-cable cop movies, it's entertaining.

I totally disagree with the other user comment that totally disagreed with everyone else. Besides the BAD acting, and the BAD directing (for cinematic effects, it would slow-mo the drama... a lot), this movie at it's end just made no sense.I have to say that you know it's bad within the first five minutes, but the majority of the criticism I can give comes having seen the ending, waiting to "tie loose ends up." So the majority of my critique will be listed under SPOILER! I will give Kudos for the fact that the movie keeps you guessing as a whodunit. Unfortunately, the end result is cockamamie.AS WELL, I thought C. Thomas Howell's character, though over the top, was actually quite entertaining. For just a few minutes, I was entertained.So onto the Spoiler... the culprit was someone who at no point in the movie even seems capable of being the killer. He never shows signs of oddness or mental illness at any time. Nor does he seem capable of having the necessary knowledge of cuneiform. The two people with star power have a total of 10 minutes of film time between them. There is no explanation of why there is a priest FBI guy on the scene, and he just appears in and out of the film inexplicably. The police department is completely shoddy and crooked and shields their detectives from investigation BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST DOING THEIR JOBS! vilifying the process of internal affairs investigations.There's even a secret tunnel into the church where the murderer goes in and out of, and when the police find it, they never post anyone to watch it. The priest hides the secret of the tunnel, because he doesn't feel it's important. Huh? What the hell? Bad writing, bad acting (I think with a better director, the actors could have performed better), and definitely bad direction. And of course a requisite sex scene that does nothing to further character or plot, simply because it's a B horror movie.IF YOU WANT TO SEE AN EXCELLENT AND UNDERRATED B HORROR FILM: try Close Your Eyes with Goran Visnjic from ER and Shirley Henderson (Moaning Myrtle).I KNEW I should have avoided this film, but I was in the mood for cheesy horror, but I got just cheesy.

This was the worst movie that I have seen in a long, long time. My wife and really love "cop movies" but it seems as if they just don't know how to make them any more. When will we again see a "Serpico" or "French Connection"? I was absolutely appalled by the cartoon like performance of C. Thomas Howell. I wondered what happened to this promising actor and now I know...his was probably the goofiest part in the whole movie.Well I guess that $3.00 wasn't too much to lose for this dreadful piece of dreck. After all, we had more than a few good laughs at the hammy acting and crappy sets.

This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen:bad actingbad storybad characterseven bad scenarios Did this movie went to the cinemas? If it did... I would want to be the poor guy who payed ticket Not even the sex scene (which appeared out of nowhere) was not worthy of special attentionDoes anybody know Carol O'Connell? She's a great new york writer. I've any of her books is transformed into movies. See it, it can only be amazing. And please mail me if u know anything