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PURCHASE THE DVD: Blowback (2000)

Predictable isn't that bad if it's well done. This 2000 crime thriller is certainly predictable, but getting there is half the fun, and you won't be bored watching this one.

The story's typical: a cop becomes too involved in a serial-killer case which is frighteningly similiar to a case he solved years ago, and for which the murderer was executed.

When the jury and prosecuting attorneys from the first case start dieing in exactly the same manner as the victims of that case, and the copycat knows things he can't possibly know about the original case, the cop becomes so obsessed he eventually get kicked off the case, but then his own ex-wife, the prosecutor in the first case, may be a potential victim, so he keeps working on his own. Add a couple more twists, and you've got a solid movie that overcomes it's predictable nature.

Incidentially, life isn't always fair, is it? While star Gladys Jimenez got to hang on a cross rightside-up, poor bit player Erynn Dana Dalton had to do her gig hanging upside-down.