*smack!*

Rating: 6/10 (8 February 2005)

This could have been such a good movie--strong actors, great premise, good cinematography...
BUT--the plot was so riddled with coincidences that it distracted from the story. And when you're distracted from the story by such contrivances the movie doesn't work.
For example: the good cop walks in on the feds' surveillance cameras at the exact moment the cab is in front of the building they're watching; one of the targets just *happens* to be in the cab before the killer; the good cop just *happens* to recall, at the crucial moment, a similar crime from a while ago and in another jurisdiction; the main character just *happens* to find a vantage point on a rooftop from where he can see not only his damsel in distress but her would-be killer AND the lights are on in ONLY those locations...etc., etc.
COME ON!!! Sloppy sloppy writing!