Emocionante thriller que narra el lado oscuro y la redención de un intrépido detective. Mantiene la tensión en todo momento, y contiene los principales elementos del género.
Homicide detective Dave Robicheaux has quit the New Orleans police department, has stopped drinking, and is living in the swamplands with his wife Annie. Dave runs a bait-and-tackle shop in New Iberia. Things are fine until the day Dave and Annie, entirely by happenstance, are on the scene when a drug smuggler's airplane crashes into the bayou, killing a number of people. Donning scuba gear, Dave succeeds in rescuing one of the passengers, an El Salvadoran girl, whom Dave and Annie take home with them. Annie names her Alafair, after Dave's mother. The plane crash brings DEA agent Minos Dautrieve in to investigate. And the drug connection brings Dave bad memories from his life as a cop -- his childhood friend Bubba Rocque is now the leading pharmaceutical drug kingpin in the area, and Bubba has a seductive wife named Claudette. And Dave's old flame Robin Gaddis, a blond stripper, still has feelings for Dave. Dave decides to investigate the airplane crash, but there is someone who wants Dave to keep his nose out of it. Dave is threatened. The warning that he should mind his own business only pushes Dave harder into the case, and one night, Annie is shot dead while Dave is outside chasing intruders. Dave thinks Bubba and Claudette may have had something to do with it, and Dave won't stop until he finds Annie's killer.
"Tiene una insuperable atmósfera. (...) Pero cuando los personajes comienzan a hablar, lo que sale de sus bocas es forzado, una parodia de diálogos duros. No importa lo siniestros que parezcan, simplemente no te los crees." (Stephen Holden: The New York Times)
"Un recargado ejemplo de exceso melodramático (...) Tiene argumento suficiente para tres películas, aunque no lo suficiente para que tenga sentido esta. (...) a cierto nivel es posible apreciar el trabajo puesto en ella." (Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times)
"Con momentos conseguidos y buena ambientación" (María Casanova: Cinemanía)
Director: Phil Joanou. Intérpretes: Alec Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Mary Stuart Masterson, Eric Roberts, Teri Hatcher, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Joe Viterelli. Guión: Harley Peyton, Scott Frank. Música: George Fenton. Fotografía: Harris Savides. Título Original: Heaven's Prisoners. Año: 1996. País: EE.UU., Reino Unido.
Duración: 115 min. Género: Thriller.
29/04/09
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