i wish it be last dumb thriller . but thriller be like that . they be like child represent numerous and illogical and and often annoy . they want so desperately to be take seriously but what be there to take seriously about a child behaviour or a thriller plot . have see this particular child i mean . thriller i understand why reviewer refer to it a a hitchcockian thriller while they might as well have call it idiotic for that what hitchcockian mean in the movie dictionary ( look it up and if you do not believe me ) . even the soundtrack be old school hollywood which be a mistake represent it doesn not fit a late 70 film and make it look phony . besides and how dare they steal de palma idea of steal from hitchcock . the story be absurd . scheider wife be kill and and her killer be never an issue . instead and first his former employer follow him around and and later decide to kill him . why do they decide to kill him . no explanation . perhaps because the fbi be a dark and dark organization ( x file ) which be very trigger happy about knock off it former employee for pension fund reason . or perhaps because it fashionable to want to kill scheider in this movie while everyone seem to be after him . and while the poor unsuspecting viewer be try to figure out the mystery by logically assume that there be a major conspiracy and in reality the killer be . janet margolin . yes and the woman occupy scheider live quarter while the one that briefly hint she be deprave . why do she go after scheider at precisely a time when his wife be murder and he be feel paranoid and follow by his own ex employer and not a few year earlier or few year after the wife murder . a pure hitchcockian ( look it up again in the dictionary and in case you forget what it mean ) coincidence . and how about that brilliant motive of hers . her grandmother be force into prostitution when she be a fresh off the boat 15 year old virgin in ny and and then syphilisized by a bunch of horny jewish men and one of whom tah dah . be scheider grandfather . a a result and margolin have be play a hooker in her spare time ( among other thing ) in order to kill off all the descendant of the men who so cruelly syphilisized her once virginal grandmother . how hitchcockian ( look it up ) be that . the finale then shamelessly rip off the mount rushmore scene from north by northwest and except that the love interest be a killer and she doesn not get save . the movie also offer some dubious or off kilter dialog and some not so great act . check out the silly and obvious way in which napier follow scheider at the cemetery . let also not forget the moronic plot device of napier reach for his jacket and hold his hand very suspiciously but it wasn not a gun . how brilliant . napier in the tower represent now and there another string of illogical behavioural pattern . j. demme be and be and and always will be a director without style and without flair and and the man who direct philadelphia . let give him another oscar .