BEFORE: I'm back from New York Comic-Con, and I took an extra day to get back into a normal rhythm - normal for me, that is, which usually involves staying up really late and oversleeping. I can't get away with that if I have to be in the convention center before the crowd each morning. I've got new "war stories" to tell, but this is not really the appropriate forum.
Jack Nicholson carries over from "The Missouri Breaks" and starts the pre-Halloween chain - though I'm not going through "The Shining" or "Wolf", since I watched those already. I've got another way to get there...
THE PLOT: A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
AFTER: This was a pretty straight-forward little character piece, with questions of morality as a border agent tries to do the "right thing", but finds that his definition of that phrase keeps shifting as the circumstances around him change. He tries to avoid corruption, but it pays better and allows his wife to keep buying new furnishings. But he draws the line at murder and baby-stealing, so he's forced to make a stand against his own co-workers.
I don't have much to add tonight, I admit I'm not bringing much to the table, maybe my head is just somewhere else or I'm still coming down off of Comic-Con. Maybe I don't care about the whole immigration issue as much as I could, or should, I don't know. Maybe I picked the wrong movie on the wrong night, or I'm just not feeling it for whatever reason. Nicholson once said that this was the best movie he ever appeared in, and I'm not really seeing that.
Also starring Harvey Keitel (last seen in "Mortal Thoughts"), Valerie Perrine (last seen uncredited in "Diamonds Are Forever"), Warren Oates (last seen in "In the Heat of the Night"), Dirk Blocker, Elpidia Carrillo, Lupe Ontiveros.
RATING: 3 out of 10 coyotes
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