An interesting failure, this has Wilson as a serial-killer...but one who is otherwise a very nice bloke, and may be the sanest person in the film. He drifts into town,
moves in with the somewhat strange Brian Cox and his wife, gets a job at the Post Office, oh, and poisons a few people. It's all terribly low-key, and that's the
problem. Should we like Wilson or not? Has he a justification? The film takes no moral stance, and this
ambivalence is not compensated for with plot or character development to
supply some much-needed impetus. Odd flashes show potential, such as the hallucinatory
federal agents (one of whom is Dwight Yoakam!) that dog our hero's every steps, but
I expected more from one of the Blade Runner scribes. The theatrical trailer
(if you missed it at the cinema...so did everyone else - it grossed less than half a million) reveals nothing of the film, instead showing a couple debating the movie - I can see the point, I just doubt the
significance of a film with no answers, nor much in the way of interesting questions.
C-
