Mr. Murder (1998)

Just perfect...

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I don't see why a lot of people on here are so hard on this movie,I personally thought it was a GREAT movie.The acting was good especially from Stephen Baldwin,its not easy to play a duel role,but I thought he did a really good job on it. Yea the movie was a little long when it could have easily only taken less time. Other than that I really enjoyed it.I even stayed up until 5:00 in the morning and was exhausted,but just couldn't seem to pull myself away from the screen. Some one mentioned that they couldn't see compassion in the characters,well I think Stephen's characters definitely showed a lot of compassion.I got attached to Marty Stillwater ha-ha.Thank goodness he didn't die. I was kind of sad to see Alfie die because he did save Marty's two girls,he never tried to hurt any of the family members,he was just creepy. So all in all I would recommend this movie! Especially if you like to watch late night movies,this makes a great one.

I have not read the book that this is about, but it seems to follow a similar plot to other Koontz books.Overall I considered this a dandy movie which was much better than most other Koontz adaptations. The acting was surprisingly good with no one detracting from the film and a few quite excellent performances as well as the sexy Julie Warner who did an excellent job.My only real complaint is that the big explanation/twist/secret is given away at the beginning of the movie. This was also a big disappointment in Hideaways and it seems that Koontz screenplays have to be this way. Besides giving everything (the whole mystery) away at the start, this was a fun action/suspense movie that I quite enjoyed. It won't knock your socks off, but is certainly worth the time to view it.

OK, I only saw 20 minutes or so of this movie, but I was flipping channels when I noticed the title. I am in the middle of this book and thought, "Oh Cool! I am reading this!" So I thought I could watch a bit of it and be okay. NOT!!! The movie started out with what I am guessing is the explanation at the end of the book. Talk about spoiler!! I changed the channel after only five minutes and would check back on it every once in a while. How knows, maybe I had the wrong story. Again...NOT! Then, at about an hour and a half through the movie (TV time), they show the first 100 pages of the book, and then not even as written. There was no reason to change what they did either. I don't want to be one of those freaks that itemizes every detail of the Star Wars flaws and composes it into a graduate thesis on it so I will say this - Boy - what a waste! Unfortunately, I have yet to see a decent Koontz movie made. Love the books. Read them instead. They are definitely worth the time.

I rented this as a DVD, unaware that it was originally made for TV. The screenplay has obvious breaks in it where commercials are meant to go, and they were so emphatically built up that I kept reaching for the "mute" button on the remote!The story itself works, and Baldwin does a good job of carrying off both the good guy and the bad guy role. The writer and director seem to have the good sense not to overdo things.Take for example the kid characters. Two young girls, obviously hostage bait, and they end up in the bad-guy's hands more than once. They're cute, but they are neither too brainless or unreasonably savvy, and we've seen too much of both extremes in that role in similar films. The older one does some fairly clever thinking that adds to the story.Less well convincing were the cops, who start out good when they doubting the hero's story, but actually become more passive as the show goes on.Probably the best thing to watch is not the villain, but the villain's villain, Drew Oslett Jr. Thomas Church actually looks like he could be James Coburn's son. But it is character's internal pain that drives the whole story. Church does his best, but it would have been interesting to give him more screen time to do it in.The "science" part of this movie is really skipped over; anyone not willing to suspend disbelief will be sorely unsatisfied.All in all worth seeing for a weekend with nothing else to do.