DEATH COMES TO ALL EXCEPT THOSE WHO DESERVE IT MOST.
Alcoholic L.A. ex-cop Matt Scudder (Jeff Bridges) attends an AA meeting when a woman slips him an invitation to a private gambling club, which leads him into a dangerous game of sex, drugs and murder. Writer Oliver Stone continues on the path he started in Scarface (1983), with generous helpings of sordidness. A slow-moving, tasteless story that takes us nowhere and has far too many sequences where Bridges and other actors just stand around screaming at each other.
1986-U.S. 115 min. Color.Ā Directed byĀ Hal Ashby.Ā Screenplay:Ā Oliver Stone, David Lee Henry.Ā Novel:Ā Lawrence Block.Ā Cast:Ā Jeff Bridges (Matt Scudder), Rosanna Arquette (Sarah), Alexandra Paul (Sunny), Randy Brooks, Andy Garcia.Ā
Trivia: Robert Towne allegedly rewrote Stone’s script; Ashby was fired after principal photography. Scudder returned onscreen inĀ A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014).
