Kiss of Death Science-Fiction / Fantasy
* * * 1/2
This in-name only remake attracted most of it's attention when
star David Caruso abandoned television's NYPD Blue for a
shot at big-screen prominence. It was a good career move; he's
excellent as the tortured Jimmy Kilmartin, a small-time car thief
whose attempts to go straight are thwarted by psychopathic
"Little Junior" Brown (Nicolas Cage, taking over
Richard Widmark's cackling thug in the original). Despite the
impending clash between these two, scripter Richard Price gets
far to much mileage out of the complicated bond between Caruso
and Samuel L. Jackson's police investigator.
Rating: | R |
Dir: | Barbet Schroeder |
Cast: | David Caruso , Samuel L. Jackson , Nicolas Cage , Helen Hunt , Kathryn Erbe , Stanley Tucci , Michael Rapaport , Ving Rhames. |
Year: | 1995 |
Length: | 101m |