It's so easy to kill someone

Rating: 7/10 (12 September 2002)

It's really so easy to kill someone even when you don't want to. Or is it that you really didn't want to? What is conscience? What is guilt? Does the end justify the means? What is a good cop? What is a bad one? Someone already said that a good cop is the one who solves more crimes than those he commits himself. This is all what this movie is about and the story evolves in the beautiful and almost unreal landscape of Alaska in summer when there is no sunset and insomnia seizes bodies and minds. The first images are terribly ominous showing an almost unwordly landscape seen from the air and they are made even more ominous by a music sound track of heavy and overwhelming density and sullenness. Al Pacino is great is the role of the super-detective who nevertheless has got his Achilles heel and what a big one. Robin Williams on the contrary seems not very much at ease in his first role of a villain. Anyway this is a good movie and in my opinion much worth to be seen.