Haven't We Met Before?

A psychiatrist gets an ideal patient to experiment with, so by hypnosis and other psychological and psychiatric tricks he gets in command of the patient's mind and starts monitoring him to commit all kinds of senseless murders on innocent people the witch-doctor thinks has destroyed a number of his previous lives. In brief, the psychiatrist gets so muddled up in his past lives speculations that he confuses them with reality and think they real enough to write a book about them, and that is only the beginning. The story gets all kinds of deviations into other speculations and theorizations all leading nowhere, the sum of it all being that nothing makes any sense. There is no harm in speculating in past lives or even in investigating the matter, but getting bogged down in them deep enough to make them take over your life is getting the whole thing a bit thick. There are too many murders here, they are all completely senseless and without meaning, and although the photo and the acting is good, the story just isn't. Making a film on this mental confusion was a complete waste of time and resources. Fortunately none of the actors was a prominent star.

I watched this movie last night on PAX for two reasons: I like Nicolette Sheridan, and I wanted to see a Mary Higgins Clark book-based movie.

However, I was disappointed w/the movie. There were lots of flashbacks to the previous lives of the Stephen Koenig character, played by Page Fletcher, and the Emily Winton character, played by Nicolette Sheridan. However, these flashbacks just made it confusing and hard to follow the flow of the movie.

I liked the chemistry between Emily and Detective Jack Cobel, played by Anthony Lemke. I had never seen Mr. Lemke in a movie before, and he was very appealing. However, they never developed their relationship, cutting off their scenes before anything happened between them.

I kept waiting for something exciting to happen, but this movie just didn't work for me.

I believe I read every novel Mary Higgins Clark wrote during the 90's. Once I started, I couldn't put them down. They were absolutely mesmerizing, you had to keep reading because you felt you were one of the characters, or at least a witness. Few novelists can imprint that in readers. And we really enjoy that kind of cinematic adventures, you can picture every single event, the mood, the colors, the temperature, the general atmosphere in each situation. Well, this is not depicted in this movie. The characters seem to play from boredom and it is difficult to fathom what they are thinking, much less feeling. Only Nicolette Sheridan is believable, but of course she alone can do very little to improve the script. Go get the book, don't waste your time watching this.

A man attacks a woman he believes led to him being hanged in a past life. While in prison, an investigation into his claims leads to some truth behind his claims. The first 20 minutes of the movie were terrible (awful shots and acting) but after that it got pretty interesting.

I usually like Mary Higgins Clark and the movies that are made based on her novels, however, this one really leaves a lot to be desired. I liked all of the major stars like Nicolette Sheridan, Page Fletcher and Anthony Lempke, but the way this movie was filmed was really awful. There isn't really very much suspense even though this film definitely screams for suspense! The flashbacks within the film are too flimsy and boring! In fact, the movie is terribly boring! I feel sorry for Nicolette Sheridan because she proved what a wonderful actress she truly is on the TV Soap "Knots Landing". I think it is a shame that a person with such talent is constantly cast in roles that don't offer her the ability to use her wonderful talent of acting! I'd pass on this one if I were you!