Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 17
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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 5
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Scripter Jeb Stuart (Die Hard) made his directorial debut with this thriller about an FBI agent in pursuit of a serial killer. Politically ambitious Amarillo police chief Jack McGinnis (William Fichtner) uses a local murder to gain votes in his campaign, a setback for Sheriff Buck Olmstead (R. Lee Ermey), up for re-election. The situation looks better for Olmstead after FBI agent Frank LaCrosse (Dennis Quaid) arrives to track the killer. LaCrosse has a personal agenda: he's convinced this killer
Oct 31, 1997 Wide
Dec 1, 1998
Paramount Home Video
All Critics (36) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (17) | DVD (1)
Quaid is a one-note sadsack here and no natural action hero.
A superb, underrated drama
High-class thriller, with a superb turn by Quaid
A well-done suspense-thriller...Has modest aspirations, but meets them admirably.
The striking American West setting enlivens this efficient, rote thriller.
messily written and surprisingly poorly acted... the pursuit is a yawn a minute, leading to a climax that would be laughable if it weren't so dull.
The hunter became the hunted.
December 15, 2009
Super Reviewer
There are many things said in the world that really ought to have been said by somebody else. Meaning is twisted when I discover from whose mouth a particular phrase was hatched, for better or worse. Some words are so alive and wise, almost a separate entity now that they have been spoken or written. The person
April 11, 2006
Super Reviewer
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