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| After Alice (a.k.a. Eye of the Killer) |
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  (6/10)
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Runtime: 100 |
| Public Rating: 6.83 (6 votes) |
Director: Paul Marcus |
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| Genre: Crime/Drama |
Year: 1999 |
| Writer(s): Jeff Miller |
| Distributor: 1 |
| Reviewed by: Arturo García Lasca |
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"After Alice" has a promotional title, "Eye of the Killer", which is much better considering this Alice person doesn't have such a big importance in the film, or maybe she does but she's not on screen enough; Eye of the Killer would get more people interested in it. I personally rented it because it has been a long time since I saw a Kiefer Sutherland film, I don't think I've seen him since "Dary City" ('98) and it was good to see him back. It's a shame he's not on 'big' movies nowdays, I hope he comes back someday.
Detective Michael 'Mick' Hayden (Kiefer Sutherland) is your normal detective: He drinks more than he should, he likes to sleep quite a bit, and it's not to thrilled about his job. One day he hits his head, and from that moment on he starts having visions. Everytime he touches something that belongs or belonged to someone, he sees something about that person. In the case of murdered people, he see how they were killed. He is contacted by Harvey (Henry Czerny), who claims to have the same gift ever since he was born; Harvey wants to help, but Mick thinks he's a freak at first.
There is a killer in town, and somehow they believe it's this one guy they were chasing about 10 years ago, he was never caught. People start dying, and he starts to investigate, making use of his new 'skills' to see stuff he normally wouldn't. He gets some help from Dr. Swann (Polly Walker), who works with ghosts, or what's left of them. The story turns a bit complex, Mick's boss keeps saying the serial killer is the same lonely man he thought was the killer 10 years back; but this man says he's innocent, and they can't prove him wrong. With his visions, Mick gets closer to solve the mystery, but is it gonna work?
Despite being a bit unbelievable, the story is certainly entertaining. Nothing above average about the film in other aspects, the acting was just ok, and it seems they didn't put much effort anyways, in one particular scene you can very clearly see a 'dead' man breathing (his stomach moves, even a blind man could see this). But I must say it was worth it, wasn't a bad time to spend an hour and forty minutes. There are lots of better movies out there, but if you like Kiefer a lot or you catch this on TV or anything, maybe it'll be good to take a look at it.
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