PRESUMED INNOCENT meets FATAL ATTRACTION with diminishing returns. Steamy crime melodramas can be entertaining trash when they boast well-rounded central characters who are flawed by their regrettable tendency to think with their genitals. In HOMICIDAL IMPULSE, stick figures scream at
each other, while the director flubs his presentation of plot complications that come from left field and beyond.
Diligent Assistant DA Tim Casey (Scott Valentine) gets passed over for promotion because he has obviously failed Assertiveness 101. Somehow, his macho boss, DA Doogan (Charles Napier), can't see that Casey has a little killer instinct in his soul. Although claiming to b...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
84 mins