though i saw this movie year ago and it impact have never leave me . stephen rea depiction of an invetigator be deep and move . his anguish at not be able to stop the death be palpable . everyone in the cast be amaze from sutherland who try to accommodate him and provide way for the police to coordinate their effort and to the troubled citizen x. each day when we be bombard with story of mass murderer and i think of this film and the exhausting work the people do who try to find the killer .