This styleless, personality-free comic strip is neither exciting nor campily diverting. MODEL BY DAY doesn't deliver on its chic premise--a socially concerned mannequin deserts her daytime runway for nights of vigilantism--and lacks the cinematic flair to strike the right poses.
In demand all over the world, cover girl Lex (Famke Janssen) undergoes a crisis when her roommate Jae (Traci Lind) is beaten savagely during the carjacking of Lex's luxury vehicle. Despite the admonitions of her martial arts instructor, Lex flies back to New York and decides to take the law into
her own manicured hands. Although she regards hunky Lieutenant Walker (Stephen Shellen) as ...
Released:
1994
Rated:
R
Length:
89 mins