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Eye for an Eye (1996)

Director:
John Schlesinger
COUNTRY
USA
GENRE
Thriller
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Øye for øye
RUNNING TIME
101 minutes
Producers:
Michael I. Levy
Michael Polaire
Kathryn Knowlton
Screenwriter (based on the novel by Erika Holzer):
Amanda Silver
Rick Jaffa


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
Karen McCann Sally Field
Robert Doob Kiefer Sutherland
Mack McCann Ed Harris ½
Det. Joe Denillo Joe Mantegna
Sidney Hughes Philip Baker Hall ½
Officer Neil Cole Paul McCrane
Dolly Green Beverly D'Angelo
Julie McCann Olivia Burnett
Megan McCann Alexandra Kyle

 

Review

John Schlesinger's Eye for an Eye, his penultimate film, could have been an interesting story about vigilante-justice – especially the aspect of the self-help group is fruitful – had it not been for the fact that the antagonist is nowhere close to a real human being, but rather Kiefer Sutherland in full-blown overacting mode. Ed Harris' work is deserving of a better end product than this arch-typical 1990s genre yarn.

Copyright © 15.3.2017 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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