No Alibi (2000) from Johnny Web (Uncle Scoopy) |
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I think this must be a horror movie, since:
Um, let's see. Superman's brother borrows his car and rips off some stolen electronics. The guy who originally stole the merchandise (Eric Roberts) is pretty hacked off, especially since he took the electronic components out of the VCR's and replaced them with 2.5 million dollars in cash. By the way, Roberts' character name sounds like it should be in a Monty Python sketch. His name is Vic Haddock. Anyway, Eric sees the car fleeing the scene, researches the owner, and assumes that Superman (I'm referring to Dean Cain here, by the way) pulled off the rip-off. Well, about at this time, a mysterious new woman comes into Superman's life, and they seem to be hitting it off quite well, until she overhears the brother say that he borrowed the car that night. Then she decides to sleep with the brother. During their liaison. who should show up but Julia Roberts' favorite brother, and he kills the guy, and it turns out that the girl was actually working for Big Eric all along. That part of the movie was a pretty damned good noir, atmospheric and mysterious, and they didn't immediately reveal the connection between the girlfriend and the crime, so they really had you wondering why this sweet girlfriend was suddenly making a play for the brother. That should have been the end of the movie, but unfortunately it wasn't. That was only a third of the way through. The rest of the movie hinged on the rather lame premise that the girl has fallen in love with The Man of Steel, despite having participated in the murder of his brother, and this makes Eric mucho jealous. So Eric shadows them as they fall in love and get married and have a child. All along Superman is still wondering just exactly why his brother was brutally murdered, so he hires a detective, and he really isn't too pleased when he finds out that his wife first screwed the brother and then set up his death. That's gotta hurt. Years go by. Continents shift. They resolve it somehow, but I can't say how. I wouldn't want to spoil the ending for you. Actually the ending is OK, as were the first thirty minutes. The other hour seemed longer than the Hundred Years War. The star, Lexa Doig, Cowgirl from the Tek War series and Andromeda in the new Roddenberry-based Andromeda series (www.andromedatv.com), is one fine-lookin' woman, but the sex scenes were so dark that it was frustrating. The other woman was in an equally dark scene, but had an unimportant role. (She's a hooker, and Roberts hires her to dress up like Doig.) IMDB summary: 5.6 out of 10. |