Never have two such obvious front-runners for the Where Are They Now? file been used to such numbing effect as Sean Young and Patrick Bergin are here, with the former as an assistant district attorney who risks body and soul to entrap the latter, a particularly unsavoury sex offender, only to end up becoming as obsessed by him as the rest of his victims.
Bergin with a performance barely discernible from his handsome-cad-terrorises-woman role in Sleeping With The Enemy masquerades as a famous photographer and "persuades" his victims to drop considerably more than just their inhibitions for the lens. Young driven, decidedly more chic than any real cop you're likely to meet, and sexually repressed takes on the case but is intrigued that while Bergin's subjects come forward to press charges and here's where it all becomes politically -very dubious they cannot decide whether they were raped or merely seduced.
Intrigue turns to ire, however, when Bergin gets violent and Young sets off to catch him at his own game. Less cat-and-mouse than tortoise-and-snail, this lurches along from one predictable moment to the next, doubly burdened as it is by two hamfisted leads and the pseudo-documentary hand of self-styled feminist director Borden