Knight Moves (1992)

Touches You

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

"Knight Moves" is one of the better thrillers of the early 1990s. It has an attention-grabbing opening, it's atmospherically directed, well-plotted (with at least one admirably effective red herring - I was fairly certain about who the killer would be, but I was wrong), it avoids gratuitous gore, and the music score (by Anne Dudley) is terrific. The film almost plays like a precursor to "Seven" and the other "serial killer teasing the police with riddles" thrillers that followed. My only major reservation: Christopher Lambert is not entirely convincing as an international chess grandmaster, which is probably the reason the film does not really focus as much on chess itself as it may appear to at first. **1/2 out of 4.

I really like this German-American co-production featuring Christopher Lambert. Though it's a common serial killer story with some well-known features like a murderer playing cats and dogs with the police, a guy being involved into the crimes meeting a femme fatale and a series of ritual murders with hints to an incident in the past, it's very thrilling and entertaining.The setting is very interesting, being a small tourist island in the fall as a background for a deadly chess tournament. The murder scenes are not that gory, but scary and breathtaking. The final showdown between Lambert and the villain is a rollercoaster ride with some nice twists and fight sequences. Watch out for this dark and fascinating serial killer movie.

Average serial killer romp, this time through the world of big time chess. Too many slow spots to be called really good: I especially detest those time slowed, useless sex scenes: all that slow motion nipple sucking lends nothing to the program. High tension ending, although not all that surprising.

I loved Knight Moves, it's very suspenseful! I kept wondering up to the moment when the serial killer was revealed who could have done the murders, and even if the killer was Peter Sanderson(Christopher Lambert). Diane Laine(Christopher's former wife) also co-starred in Knight Moves, they acted very well together, the love scene was passionate and loving. I think most people would enjoy Knight Moves, it's well written and with a strong cast.