Leofwine_draca
TUNNEL VISION is a dullish Australian thriller featuring Patsy Kensit as the miscast lead. She's out of her depth here, really struggling with the accent and failing to convince most of the time too. I saw this described as a giallo but it's more like a psycho-thriller of the kind that were doing the rounds in the early 1990s. Kensit is a cop on the trail of a killer, but the pacing is slow and not much happens from beginning to end. Former Hammer horror star Shane Briant (FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL) appears playing an older cop but has very little to work with, and the mystery ends up being resolved in the most boring and predictable way imaginable.
gridoon
"Tunnel Vision" starts out as a serial killer thriller with S&M references, but soon bogs down into too much family drama; the police investigation takes second chair to the male detective's marital troubles! So basically we have two parallel story lines running at once, and although the film does manage to tie them up with a decent final twist, it progresses SO slowly that for many viewers it may not be worth the wait. Patsy Kensit is sexy (she has the face of a supermodel and I love her accent) and convincing as a cop, but for someone who receives first billing, she doesn't really get to do all THAT much. The rest of the cast is functional and nothing more. (**)
Coventry
Patsy Kensit and some random Australian bloke star as a duo of wannabe tough coppers in the middle of investigating a series of art-gallery related murders, but in between they can still find the time to shoot juvenile shoplifters and suspect the brand new wife of the male cop of being adulterous. The serial killer suddenly isn't important anymore when the supposed lover of the wife (who's basically just a co-worker of hers) is found murdered and the male cop becomes prime suspect. "Tunnel Vision" is a really dull, implausible and tension-free Aussie thriller that obviously imitates popular sex-thrillers like "Fatal Attraction", "Disclosure" and "Basic Instinct". The characters are extremely one-dimensional and pretty much every good-cop/bad-cop cliché is extendedly described in the script. The struggling position of police women in a corps full of men, the shoot-first-ask-questions-later mentality, alcohol problems through stress, etc etc
Even the unhealthy eating habits of cops are a running gag. Yawn! Kensit really tries her best to make this film more bearable, but she lacks the credibility and talent of a real cinema heroine. The end-twist is more or less interesting (not at all original, mind you) but, by then, you stopped caring for the characters a long time already. The scenes filmed inside the sex clubs look ludicrously fake and Clive Fleury's directing is completely uninspired. What a total waste of time
smatysia
I'm a fan of Patsy Kensit, so I watched this Aussie import. I was disappointed. Just couldn't believe any of the characters, any of the "suspense" or any of the plot. To its credit, though, I did not see the major plot turn at the end coming. But that's not enough. Compliments on the beauty of Rebecca Rigg. But overall, this film isn't worth seeing. Grade: F
AD
