Yes, the serial murder of nuns based in Los Angeles is a pretty disgusting crime (considering that it also involves rape), and it made me wonder why the writer chose nuns to be the victims. For veteran detective Charles Bronson and rookie daughter Dana Delaney, the case becomes their biggest ever, but it puts them often at conflict due to differing methods and causes problems in his marriage to devoted wife Bonnie Bartlett who finds the case a bit obsessive as well as dangerous, especially after they receive some bizarre packages in the mail. When one nun is found dead, they harass the tenants in the building she lived in, making some rather homophobic comments about one of them before moving onto the next.
Good performances can't hide the fact that thiscis rather exploitive in nature, and the killer is revealed to the audience all too fast. I'm certain that father and daughter break a few laws while investigating. I wouldn't call this a bad film, but there have been a lot better action dramas like this, and even some of Bronson's most critically reviled films of the 80's had much faster pacing. Xander Berkekey (who got his start in a brief appearance as Christopher Crawford in "Mommie Dearest") is a chilling killer, with Juliana McCarthy ("The Young and the Restless's" Liz Foster's, Jill's mother) a standout as his embittered mother. Bartlett has some great moments expressing disillusionment over the state of her marriage, basically walking off with the film which thanks to good writing at least for her makes her much more memorable than Bronson (basically repeating his "Death Wish" role) and Delaney.
Good performances can't hide the fact that thiscis rather exploitive in nature, and the killer is revealed to the audience all too fast. I'm certain that father and daughter break a few laws while investigating. I wouldn't call this a bad film, but there have been a lot better action dramas like this, and even some of Bronson's most critically reviled films of the 80's had much faster pacing. Xander Berkekey (who got his start in a brief appearance as Christopher Crawford in "Mommie Dearest") is a chilling killer, with Juliana McCarthy ("The Young and the Restless's" Liz Foster's, Jill's mother) a standout as his embittered mother. Bartlett has some great moments expressing disillusionment over the state of her marriage, basically walking off with the film which thanks to good writing at least for her makes her much more memorable than Bronson (basically repeating his "Death Wish" role) and Delaney.