in the title i write that the story be ludicrous . below i will elaborate and tell you why it and in my humble opinion and ruin this movie . gere and dane be do their job and and while it not their best work and it quite ok. the rest of the cast and though and be do a really poor job . mind you and this be not entirely the actor fault . the problem be that gere and dane be the only one that have character that have even the slight room in the movie to really give any depth . all other character have either too little room in the movie to create any depth and or the character be such a cliché that it doesn not matter how hard the actor try . the director have a bit of a se7en complex and but look merely at the direction and i think he do an ok job . but the story . this be the kind of script that be bad in two way . first of all it a bad movie script . the character be shallow ( except for gere and dane character ) and the villain be clichés and the action of the character be totally unbelievable . besides this and the writer must have an agenda where they want to bring back our view and ethic a hundred year . it the kind of movie that be say that some criminal be still criminal and regardless of the fact that they have pay the price the society have give them . it also the kind of movie that say and albeit only between the line and that every form of sexual deviance should be punish without trial and judge or jury . and of course and accord to the movie and everything that be not sex in the missionary position by a married couple be a sexual deviance . so and if youre go to film school and need an example of a bad script and or if youre write script yourself and want an ego boost . see it . for everyone else and i recommend another movie .