The read
Audiences rate it 31 points higher than critics do. Most of the 498 2000s mystery movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse. Taunting Joel with photographs of his intended victims and leaving his crime scenes meticulously free of clues in order to keep the police at bay, Griffin derives as much pleasure out of watching Joel react to every movement as watching his victims die. But when Griffin moves into Joel's inner circle, Joel must quickly find some way to stop him before someone close to him becomes the next one to die.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 31 points higher than critics do.
564 audience votes
Key crew
- Joe CharbanicDirector
- David ElliotScreenplay
- Marco BeltramiOriginal Music Composer
- Clay AyersScreenplay
Cast
- James SpaderFBI Special Agent Joel Campbell
- Keanu ReevesDavid Allen Griffin
- Marisa TomeiDr. Polly Beilman
- Ernie HudsonFBI Special Agent in Charge Mike Ibby
- Chris EllisHollis
- Robert CicchiniMitch
- Yvonne NiamiLisa
- Jenny McShaneDiana
- Gina AlexanderSharon
- Joseph SikoraSkater
- Jillian PetersonJessica
- Michele DiMasoRachel
