work the night shift in a seedy police station and stumble through life in an alcoholic haze and detective mickey hayden can hardly be say to have a firm grasp on reality to begin with and but when a bump on the head unleash terrify psychic vision and thing get truly weird . soon he on the trail of a serial killer and unravel the mystery of his beautiful first victim and the elusive alice . the role of an embittered burn out seem tailor make for keifer sutherland and he make the most of it . the plot typical serial killer stuff and but it have enough quirk and twist and and genuine surprise to raise it above the usual genre fare and even make up for a painfully low budget . ( one wonder what this film could have be if there would be money for a few more rewrite and a few more take . ) all in all and after alice be a pleasant diversion for anyone and but for fan of lewis carroll alice book and it a real treat . from the topsy turvy reality in which thing be rarely what they have seem and to more obvious reference a killer call the jabberwocky and who leave play card on his victim body there an alice reference at every turn . below be a list of the one i uncover . since find them yourself be half the fun and i have mark them a spoiler . spoilerscast of charactersmickey in a sense he alice himself wander through strange landscape and encounter odd character and but harvey and recognize his true nature and identify him a the hapless and bumble white knight . john hatter ( mickey bos ) be he really amad . you be the judgeclaudette an african american transvestite . obviously and the black queenmargaret ellison mickey call her the red queen and but her brutal nature suggest and more specifically and the queen of heart . gideon wood suspect of be the jabberwocky killer and his ambiguous role be more suggestive of a snark ( or a boojum perhaps ) . harvey his role a unofficial guide to wonderland and his name and evocative of another famous cinematic rabbit and make me think he must be the white rabbitdr . vera swann her last name and relationship with mickey suggest the white queen . other connectionsmickey adventure begin when he chase a man in white and fall down a ( rabbit ) hole . mickey drunkenly tell his cat to stop grinning at him ( cheshire cat ) the killer be reveal through the look glass . the climatic showdown end in a swirl of play card and just a alice adventure do in the book . the statue in the garden look like giant chess piece .