Diane Lane plays a detective who's trying to locate a charming man who kills people online in a variety of fiendish ways, as though he's Fu Manchu or somebody - how quickly they die depends on how many people tune in (a rather sick plot point, as sick as some of the messages posted we glimpse). Refreshingly, she doesn't go to bed with nice cop Billy Burke, nor does she need him to waste the bad guy (Joseph Cross) in the final minutes, which she manages to do perfectly well on her own. Also features Colin Hanks, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Gray Lewis. And, weirdly, as we're on a Modern Family binge, Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
Apart from the sick murders it doesn't have any imagination. Written by Robert Fyvolent & Mark Brinker and Allison Burnett.
It was the Portland in Oregon, if anyone's interested.
I must say I did like the stunt of the guy who blows his brains out then falls off the bridge onto the van below in one take.
Lane's fine as always but the film doesn't make much sense and is unappealing. Looks like it had been ENR-ed, if they still do such things, making it inky dark (Anastas Michos).
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