The rest of the movie is rather boring, and can mean something only if you really like Shannen Doherty, I mean ‘really’, enough to bear with a movie with no soul.
She plays Madeleine who’s been married with Michael (Michael Woods) for two years and already she feels he’s no longer interested in her and their sex life is somewhat lacking. She thinks he works too much and doesn’t even like to touch her. Michael himself suggested she started seeing a therapist, Dr Jennings (Judd Nelson), and he suggested her playing sex-games to get a response from him. It works but she still complains that it works only during the game but after that he turns absent and concentrated on his work, which honestly seemed rather lame, he had to go to work, he couldn’t stay around playing teenagers :-/
Her sister Chris (Kristian Alfonso) is a cop and she’s investigating a series of murders, women handcuffed and blindfolded and then brutally killed. Chris suspects doctor Jennings and follows him around and when she finds out that he’s Madeleine doctor she warns her that he’s a suspect in the ‘blindfold murders’ - for no real reason at all. Chris even breaks into his office to look at his files - how the police got the key to his office beats me.
When Madeleine tries to show the doctor a series of pictures Michael took of her he refuses to look at them, I guess because he’s already too attracted to her and finds it more and more difficult to keep it professional - and later on he won’t, although their sex scene is really short and insignificant.
Madeleine tries a new game with Michael that seems to work: she blindfolds and handcuffs herself to the bed (keeping the key in her hand) and waits for him to come home. The doctor is upset and says that recreating how the murders take place is not a safe thing to do and she should stop, that she’s crossing the line, but she doesn’t. Still, his words must have affected her because next time they play that game and Michael uses a knife - scaring her but not hurting her - she gets so scared she tries to free herself but loses the key and starts crying.
Dr Jennings finds one of her pictures on the floor, and what do you know, what a coincidence, it’s actually the only one that Michael took of himself, so he realizes that Michael is actually Aldridge.
Chris still thinks the doctor is the killer and hurries to her sister’s house but when she gets there she finds Michael in her room, Madeleine in crying and for a moment she doesn’t know what to do but in that moment the doctor calls leaving a message saying that Michael is Bobby Aldridge - which is very significant since Chris hears it, but since the message was supposed to be for Madeleine it doesn’t make all that much sense, since she doesn’t know who Aldridge is.
Another cop goes to see the doctor with a gun and the doctor tries to tell him that Madeleine is in danger but thinking there is no time to waste he hits the cop on the head, takes his gun and hurries to her house.
Why does he think that there is such a hurry is another nonsense. It is true, but Madeleine had told him that Michael was out of town for a few days, so how could he know that he was home threatening her life is another mystery.
Chris won’t shoot Michael and they fight and he loses his glasses and then breaks them. Madeleine manages to break the bed headboard partially freeing herself (how do they make furniture in America? come on..) but she’s still handcuffed and blindfolded so it’s not easy to walk away. Luckily he can’t see anything without his glasses. Eventually Michael gets her but at that moment the doctor bursts in and shoots Michael. He takes off her blindfold; Michael is not yet dead but Chris appears to knock him down. And it’s the end, just like that. Not a word, nothing, that’s it. I hate it when movies end so abruptly.
I kinda appreciated that the husband was the murderer because I liked the doctor but I didn’t like the husband, and yet it was all so vague and abrupt and unsatisfactory :-/
Basically, there is no real thriller, no real investigation, all there is is a lot of Shannen scenes and a lot of nude scenes. Nothing else.
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