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I agree with the 5 star review from Leofwine_draca. It's not a terrible film. Hackman is always engaging. There's action and a pursuit. But there are elements that should have been left out. There's a scene where Hackman is buying time by jumping into a private room as he waits for bad guys to go by. The dialogue does not come off and goes on for far too long. Yet there are other parts that work better such as when the Hackman character deputises a 10 year old boy to get hold of his toy gun ! But why does the Hackman character never have a gun ? Plus there are problems with the central character of the witness who comes across as unlikable to the point of it becoming unbelievable. Bottom line, this is worth seeing if you are a Hackman fan but otherwise the films various elements fail to ignite into a creative vision that we've seen in films like The French Connection.

At first I thought this could be interesting, even a nostalgic trip back to the tech of 1993. But the "VR" turns out to be normal video with processing on it to make it look pixellated ! The Silicon Valley angle is just there to supposedly make an interesting Murder She Wrote story that seems to simply be trying to riff off (badly) to VR inspired fare of the era such as Lawnmower Man (at least that had actual CGI in it). So called "VR" was quite primitive in 1993 by todays standards. However the engine that powers the game "Doom" was created in 1993. I would have been cool to have Angela Lansbury interacting with something in that but that was maybe just too "cutting edge" for the time.

Not a coincidence that i'm writing this on 6th of June 2022. Took me 40 years to find what I must have watched as a 10 or 11 year old. I was riveted. This is epic WW2 drama, basically, on a stage with chairs and actors. The Lancaster bomber crew have been badly mauled and limp home not even sure if they are flying in the right direction. The radio operator is dead and his blood has obliterated all their maps. In an epitome of desperation this piece somehow depicts what could be impossible to put into words. See key Aero forum for an amazing thread about the production.