Promising cast let down by frankly awful screenplay. Poor directing meant that dramatic tension was noticeable by its almost complete absence, and character development was also weak. I think most of the people reading this review could have made a better job of this movie than the people who actually produced it.

This film has a good story that unravels at the end. Still, for a small independent film, it is intriguing, handling the mystery element well. Derien (Rebecca De Mornay) is a former vice cop now working as a private detective. Anthea (Dana Delaney) hires her to follow her husband Michael (Kiefer Sutherland) to see if he is cheating on her. After a few uneventful days of surveillance, Anthea is still not satisfied, so she adds a new dimension to the assignment. She proposes that Derien try to seduce her husband to test his fidelity. His response is predictable; the rest is not.

The story has some interesting and innovative twists, but becomes incongruous at the end. Without giving away the ending, all I can say is the director needed to do more research on forensics, because a suspect who is arrested for murder in the film would have been cleared 30 minutes after being detained in the real world.

The cast gives a solid performance. Kiefer Sutherland has played so many demented characters in his career that it is something of a shock seeing him in so normal a role. His character is no angel, but at least he isn't a sociopath. Sutherland gives a good performance but makes his character almost too nice. Rebecca De Mornay is back in shape, after a flaccid performance in "A Table for One". This is actually the best I can remember her in quite some time. She is effective at rendering a character that is tough on the outside and tortured on the inside, with more than one weak spot in her psyche. Dana Delany is devious and duplicitous as the scheming wife.

Overall, this B movie could have been better, but it is far from bad. I rated it a 6/10. If you enjoy mysteries, it might be worth a try.

Acting, plot, and script were absolutely superb. Better than Basic Instinct or Saving Private Ryan. Should have won dozens of Oscars. A must own for everyone.

I thought it was a very good movie, kept me guessing at times. I didn't have to guess about Rebecca DeMornay and her sex scenes. I thought everyone's acting was very good except the dork who got shot in the beginning and "Rebecca" kept flashing back to from time to time. Found out that he's Rebecca's real life husband and he must be the kind of guy who likes watching his wife in action with other men,or maybe he's her pimp,or maybe he's a momma's boy,whatever I can see his pride when he shows his kids what mom does to pay the bills. I think Ms.DeMornay is a great actress when she doesn't sell herself short, but when your somebody's "sugar mommy" a girl has to do what she has to do. Put your arm around him and tell him he's your hero and maybe he'll feel better.