Product: Prime Suspect [VHS] (1992)
Rating: 5.0
Cold. Steely. Ruthless. Ambitious.
In a typically understated British fashion, Prime Suspect delivers excellent performances by an edgy, raucous cast of locker-room cops and a steely-eyed, ambitious female Detective Chief Inspector (DCI), Tennison. She is cold and analytical, difficult to warm up to. Yet the plot works as she is pitted against a cadre of wary, cocky, antagonistic, young detectives in a race against the clock.A prostitute has been brutally beaten and killed. Marlow is the prime suspect in the murder investigation. He remains the prime suspect throughout, and the viwer joins th einvestigation team to find other suspects. Undermined from within at every turn, DCI Tennison remains stubbornly resilient and determined to lead her unruly bunch of detectives through the painstaking process of solid detective work to solve this difficult case.Somehow it all works marvelously well and the viewer is left to hoist a toast to the modern-day Miss Marple, "Here, here!" Quite so.