A kind-hearted psychiatrist lends his raincoat to a patient about to leave the building in bad weather. Only a block away, the patient stops to buy some roses. While waiting for his flowers, he is knifed by an assassin. For the unsuspecting psychiatrist, this means the beginning of a roller-coaster nightmare...
Quite a watchable thriller with a prestigious though unexpected cast. There's a nicely classical motif : an innocent man finds himself in a whole heap of trouble, gets treated like a suspect by the police, and goes looking for the culprit(s) himself.
The role of the unsuspecting psychiatrist, a douce and middle-aged man, is held by none other than Roger Moore. Moore does well enough, although there's something about his essential Britishness that makes it hard to understand why he's listening to the sick and the desperate in the USA. It's rather like watching Queen Liz shop for undies at Rodeo Drive... Anyway, the psychiatrist character does not make entire sense. It is difficult to imagine a seasoned psychiatrist, however douce, decent and law-abiding, getting completely flabbergasted by the idea that some people on this Earth only live for antisocial behaviour or sadistic viciousness.
The violence pictured in the movie is often quite graphic : consider yourself warned...
Quite a watchable thriller with a prestigious though unexpected cast. There's a nicely classical motif : an innocent man finds himself in a whole heap of trouble, gets treated like a suspect by the police, and goes looking for the culprit(s) himself.
The role of the unsuspecting psychiatrist, a douce and middle-aged man, is held by none other than Roger Moore. Moore does well enough, although there's something about his essential Britishness that makes it hard to understand why he's listening to the sick and the desperate in the USA. It's rather like watching Queen Liz shop for undies at Rodeo Drive... Anyway, the psychiatrist character does not make entire sense. It is difficult to imagine a seasoned psychiatrist, however douce, decent and law-abiding, getting completely flabbergasted by the idea that some people on this Earth only live for antisocial behaviour or sadistic viciousness.
The violence pictured in the movie is often quite graphic : consider yourself warned...