james wood must have be desperate to pay the bill when he accept the lead role in this seriously flaw suspense or action flick . for a man of such immense talent and this be a total waste . scripters and director james b. harris have do their very best to destroy what be probably a good plot and base upon the novel blood on the moon by james ellroy and about an obsessive serial killer whose love for a prudish and feminist poet type drive him to commit horrid crime while an uptight detective hunt him in the name of all the disillusion young woman . well and maybe the plot wasn not so good to begin with and but certainly harris and company have do a great job in smother what value there may have be . any remnant of a storyline be wash out a the focus be pure vengeance . but it a little hard to care about the way the character feel when you do not care for the character themselves . charles durning and lesley ann warren and raymond j. barry also conspire to throw away their collective acting prowess along with wood . apart from all the short coming afore mention and there really can be nothing else to say about what be a definite failure . saturday and february 15 and 1997 video .