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Eye Of The Killer

2000, Movie, R, 100 mins

Eye Of The Killer: Review

EYE OF THE KILLER | AFTER ALICE
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Bad dreams drive this made-for-cable psychological thriller about presentiment, which is anchored by two excellent star-turns from Kiefer Sutherland and the always-reliable Henry Czerny. Whenever he touches a corpse, Detective Mickey Hayden (Sutherland) gets a jolting vision from the victim's point of view. His skill gets put to the test when a serial killer dubbed "Jabberwocky" apparently resurfaces after a ten-year hiatus. Or are the murders being committed by a copycat? Adding to the pressure on Hayden, his superior officer, John Hatter (Gary Hudson), may be setting him up for a fall. Fellow psychic Harvey (Czerny), by contrast, doesn't disparage Hayden's gift, but he does encourage Hayden to defy Hatter. Hatter orders Hayden to focus on Gideon Wood (Stephen Ouimette), the original suspect in the Jabberwocky killings, but Harvey pushes Hayden in a different direction, one of which leads to Margaret Ellison (Eve Crawford), whose brother was a Jabberwocky victim. As history repeats itself, Hayden must figure out how to separate his dreams from the killer's reality. Too many red herrings have choked the flow of suspense by the time the film's denouement plays out, and screenwriter Jeff Miller doesn't play fair with viewers — his determination to delay the culprit's unmasking produces too many psychic vision sequences and false leads. But despite the liberal use of thriller stereotypes, Miller and director Paul Marcus wring intermittent suspense out of Hayden's battles with his personal demons. The assured performances go a long way to making the standard issue "surprise" ending worth the wait. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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