Bruce Willis always seemed like an everyday guy in his film roles, and I think that’s why so many of us accepted him as a cop in seemingly every other film he made. Hitting a couple of years before his third outing as John McClane, Willis played Pittsburgh police officer Tom Hardy.

He’s after a serial killer, one that has come a little too close to him. He believes the killer is a cop, but an investigation into his partner, Jimmy Detillo (Robert Pastorelli) at the same time, whom he testified against cost him his detective shield and ostracized him from the force.

When his father (John Mahoney) is killed in pursuit of he suspect, and his uncle, Nick (Dennis Farina) is the new chief, he finds himself working River Rescue with rookie officer, Jo Christman (Sarah Jessica Parker).

When Nick’s son, and Jimmy’s brother, Danny (Tom Sizemore) rolls back into town, he becomes one of the obvious suspects when bodies start appearing again. Bu all the bodies have a connection to Hardy.

Can Tom and Jo figure out what is going on? There’s lots of evidence to wade through even as a relationship blossoms between them, which will put Jo in trouble when its time for the climax.

It’s actually really easy to figure out who the killer is, the screenplay which Rowdy Herrington had a hand in before he settled into the director’s chair. That doesn’t make it a bad film, but you’re waiting, he entire film, for Tom to put it all together, which the you’ve already figured.

I will say, the cast is pretty strong. You’ve got Willis, Parker, Mahoney, Farina, Sizemore, Pastorelli, but you’ve also got Brion James, Andre Braugher, and Tom Atkins.

There’s on fun twist, that I’d forgotten about which plays out well.

Willis just seems to have those hard-drinking, smoking, beaten down guys fighting against the odds down pat. And sure, this one isn’t great, it’s predictable on almost every level, but Willis is fun to watch.

And there’s also an interesting score by Brad Fiedel.

There’s some interesting beats, and some action sequences. There could have been a little more, but, of course, this is a mystery thriller, more than an action movie, but you gave expectations when Bruce is on screen.

Parker seems a little out of place in the film, but he rest of the casting works well. I just don’t think it’s the kind of genre we expect to see her in, so maybe that’s why she seems out of place.

It’s a fairly entertaining film, predictable, but solid, and Willis is great. The production, and location work is solid, and this feels like one that has slipped through the cracks a little bit over the years.