paul-2148
I suppose Jagged Edge started this whole genre, and I have seen many similar films like this on LMN since then. I saw this film when it came out and just watched it again on cable. Well this is no Jagged Edge. The script is rubbish, and the film can't recover from it. I assume Lumet had a coke habit during the shooting if this.
marieltrokan
Good attracts evil. Evil attracts good. The definition of good, in this instance, is the ability to attract an opposite. The definition of evil is the same. Good is the ability to not destroy. Evil is the ability to destroy. The ability to protect is the ability to attract an opposite. The ability to destroy is the ability to attract an opposite. Protection attracts an opposite. Destruction attracts an opposite. Protection attracts destruction. Destruction attracts protection. Attraction is ability. Protection is the ability of destruction. Destruction is the ability of protection. Ability is purpose. The purpose of destruction is protection. The purpose of protection is destruction.Destruction is inability - the lack of purpose. The lack of purpose is the purpose of protection. Purpose is the purpose of the lack of purpose.No purpose is the purpose of purpose. The purpose of purpose is no purpose. No purpose is inertness. Inertness is the purpose of purpose. The purpose of purpose is inertness.The purpose of purpose is the same as the inertness of inertness. The inertness of inertness is inertness.Inert inertness is incapacity that's incapacity - the incapacity of incapacity is inert.Inertness is balance. But balance is the incapacity of incapacity. The incapacity of incapacity is the capacity of capacity. The capacity of capacity is an unmotivated capacity. Balance is an unmotivated ability - a motivated inability.The true meaning of order, or balance is when an inability to do something possesses reason. If an inability has no reason, an inability isn't possible.All weaknesses, all limitations and all hardships in reality are only possible because they've been given power.All power in the universe can only be used to create weakness
RavenGlamDVDCollector
Looks like a TV-movie. Slow. Drab. Then becomes quite violent and is clearly not in TV-movie land anymore. Rebecca could have done much more with this. And the director should have avoided that boring feel that pervades the movie especially at the beginning. And that cheap way of starting the opening sequence, hell, what were they thinking? A computerized dummy tumbling down that takes forever sort of sums up the essence of the whole thing.By 1993 standards, very weak. Must be meant as an old-style thriller, but fails to deliver on its potential. Don's line re why he didn't use gloves, "it would have felt like f*cking her with a rubber" is the climax of the movie, and stabs at the wasted opportunity, as this could clearly have been truly suspenseful if they maintained such high evil standards. Instead of just low evil standards.
merklekranz
Stalking and talking seems to be what "Guilty as Sin" is all about. Don Johnson does the stalking of his lawyer, Rebecca De Mornay, and everyone in the film talks and talks. Unfortunately, the womanizing Johnson, comes across as an almost unreal villain. He assaults Stephen Lang, yet no police are ever involved. He produces a surprise witness, who's motivation for giving him an alibi for his wife's murder borders on ridiculous. The only redeeming factor about Don Johnson is that his character is so despicable, you have to hang around for the ending, simply to see him get what's due. Don't blink however because the end when it finally does come is both swift and a real stretch of reality. Watchable, but not much more. - MERK
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