When 19 year pöd Sara (Stephanie Hurley) comes to at an abandoned subway station and finds herself face to face with a man (Daniel Grochowski) with a gun, she immediately knows what this is about. After all, she has tried to blackmail an US senator with enough money to hire a hitman rather than give into her demands. And indeed, the hitman leaves her in no uncertainty about his purpose. But rather than making it quick to get it over with or torture her for his own enjoyment, he takes the opportunity to involve her in a deep conversation, forcing her to question her own life choices, drawing things out to a point where she begs him to kill her to end her misery - but there's more to this story than meets the eye ...

Now writer/director Steve Altman sure knows how to make a thriller, he knows how to create suspense, knows how to write sharp dialogue, and knows what to leave out in dialogue for maximum effect. And his two leads sure know how to deliver their lines and embody their characters. What really makes the film though is its rather unexpected yet totally satisfying ending that really gives everything that has previously happened a new twist without dminishing its impact. So in all, a pretty great and rather unique genre miniature.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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