不间断杀机

The lead actor, Scott Wolf, gives a compelling performance as a detective who believes he will die of a terminal and painful illness. He orders a "hit" on himself from a stranger only to discover the diagnosis was wrong. That would have been a fairly good story, but the rest of the movie falls apart by some rather dumb and nonsensical sub-plots and a poor and ludicrous performance from the grossly over-rated Tim Roth. Do not understand why film-makers when they have an interesting plot spoil it by both over complicating the story line and introducing silly scenes.

侦探Emmett(Scott Wolf饰)年轻有为,对自已的未来充满雄心,而且马上要开始调查一桩大案; 然而他的生活即将被永远地改变:在一次体检中他被告知,他周期性的偏头疼实际上是某种致命的疾病,他即将面对死亡;

心烦意乱中,Emmett遇到一个友善而神秘的陌生人Marlow(Gabriel Byrne饰),他也曾做过警察. Marlow向他提出一个胆大的主意: 由他来安排一个杀手,在未来某时将Emmett杀死,以使他放松地渡过人生的最后岁月,并了却疾病带给他的痛苦;Emmett在绝望中答应下来, Marlow则选择了潦倒的保安John(Tim Roth饰)来解决Emmett.

Emmett成了被追踪的目标,John即将闻讯而至. 然而不久以后,他发现医院开出的病历有误:他并不会死. Emmett必须在有限的时间内尽快找到Marlow, 取消这个约定;

主角Scott Wolf表现非常出色，他扮演一个相信自己会死于很痛苦的绝症。因此，他找了一个默生人来刺杀自己，但后来发觉医生的 诊断出了错。这个故事的情节应该相当不错的, 但电影有些无意义的次要情节，而且自以为是的Tim Roth表演粗劣和可笑。真不明白为什么制片人会让过度复杂的故事和愚笨的场面，来破坏这么有趣的剧情。

◎演员表

加布里埃尔拜恩 Gabriel Byrne .... Jack Marlow/Stephen Bracken

蒂姆拉夫 Tim Roth .... John Harrett/Frank Dwyer

Khandi Alexander .... Det. Middlestat

Johnny Alonso .... Serial killer

Jan Austell .... Dr. Bradley

Talia Balsam .... Suzanne

Dan Buran .... Young patrolman

William DaRuffa .... Hotel manager

约翰道曼 John Doman .... Capt. Berman

Wayne Duvall .... Richard Wilkes

Wendy Grantham .... Young officer In Records

Ira Hawkins .... Det. Birch

Spencer Howard .... Mistaken Marlow

Greg Korin .... Passerby (uncredited)

Katrina Law .... Francine

◎外文别名

Killing Emmett Young(2003) (USA) (video title)

◎MPAA

Rated R for some violence and language.

◎NFO