Claudia Schiffer in In Pursuit (2000)

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There is nothing to say about this movie except 'avoid it'.

The plot is rambling, and I'm still confused about why people did what they did. The acting is often on the dinner theater level. One character comes back from the dead twice, and another escapes from a maximum security prison and a sinking boat.

Everyone turns out to be everyone else's father, ala Darth Vader and Skywalker, and every character lies to every other character at all times, and there are about 10 consecutive completely unbelievable coincidences, and ...

... and I'm not going to remember anything more about this. Its too painful.

Here's the basic summary.

The chubby Baldwin is a lawyer. He stops to help a female motorist one night, and takes some pictures of her car, for insurance purposes. Later that night he's picked up on a DUI, but in the morning he's arraigned for murder. But he escapes from prison. He knows that either the motorist or the pictures can alibi him.

Turns out that he and his lover were blackmailing the murder victim, just as the D.A. accused him of, but it later turns out that the lover (Claudia Schiffer) may or may not have framed him, then it turns out that the murder victim is his own father, and finally it turns out that the murder victim is looking remarkably sprightly for a dead man.

But that's OK, because the lover/doublecrosser killed the "victim" a second time (she was also the father's lover), and although dad didn't fake that second death, he still managed to come back and get involved in several more plot twists, and was still remarkably sprightly for a man with several bullets in him who was given up for dead.

And even the stranded motorist was a set up. In one brief sequence, Baldwin runs into the stranded motorist just hanging out in San Diego, but if that weren't enough of a concidence, she runs out of her car when he slides in, then she commandeers a passing car, and is immediately hit by a passing truck.

I can't come up with any plusses about this film. Not one. You must avoid it because if you try to watch it, it will consistantly confuse and irritate you. It has no good points. It is more comprehensible than Glam, so it's not the worst movie of the past year, but it made a pretty good run at it.

Nudity Report: There is a fleeting look at Claudia Schiffer's buns.

Critics Vote: Two and a half stars. Roger Ebert 2/4, Berardinelli 2.5/4, Leonard Maltin 2.5/4, Apollo 74.

IMDB Summary: 3.6 out of 10

Box Office: It did good. $46 million domestic gross

DVD Info: Full-length director/writer commentary. Widescreen letterbox.

Written by: Scoopy …Scoopy.net