"Law and order" on steroids

Rating: 5/10 (11 October 2014)

Lots of twists, with plenty of audience manipulation (like Law and Order they skew things to make you suspect one person, then another...) with the kind of gore you would never get on TV-- yuck. But it keeps your attention. The reason for my 5, rather than a 7, is the ending. Most of the film is tolerably believable, but the ending is just not plausible. The FBI would not get involved in a case like this, the prosecution for the real murder would have been in another jurisdiction, and even if it were not, the last thing a burned prosecutor would do is let go of someone who murdered someone and tried to frame someone else. Also not plausible that the husband would choose to go along for the fame and money ride after what had happened. In other words, the ending is too clever by at least half.