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Darkness Falls

2002, Movie, R, 90 mins

Darkness Falls: Review

DARKNESS FALLS | DANGEROUS OBSESSIONS
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Although director Gerry Lively initially opens up this adaptation of a stage play, the film soon degenerates into a talky character study with nothing new to say. Wheeler-dealer Martin Driscoll (Tim Dutton) has good reason to be jumpy. Creditors with whom he did a business deal are sniffing around for a ten million-dollar payback. Fortunately, a wealthy old pal is supping at the Driscoll mansion that evening. In the midst of dinner preparations, Martin's long-suffering wife Sally (Sherilyn Fenn) receives an unexpected guest, John Barrett (Ray Winstone). When harried Martin arrives home, he's in no mood for a chat with this near-stranger, whom he met once at a business conference and with whose wife, Jane (Robin McCaffrey), he had a passionate affair. While walking the Driscolls down memory lane, John systematically cuts the phone lines and disarms the couple's alarm system, then takes the couple hostage. Next, John drops a bombshell about Jane's near-fatal car accident five months ago. Unable to convince the police that a man was driving the car, John lays out the same evidence for Sally and the squirming Martin. John also informs Sally that Jane was pregnant, and that her mystery lover fled the crash scene after shifting her body behind the wheel. John's story makes sense to Sally, and her sympathies shift to Martin's inquisitor. Meanwhile, Martin freaks out when his benefactor arrives but cannot ascertain that anyone is home; without that loan, Martin is a dead man. With his marriage in shambles, Martin endeavors to escape from John in time to satisfy his debt. Lively sets up this one-man judge-and-jury scenario with considerable panache, only to cave in to writers John Howlett and N.J. Crisp's worst impulses, which include reiterating moral positions and tipping his hand about John's revelations too soon. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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