Kate (Cindy Crawford) is going through a nasty divorce. When her ex-husband won’t pay alimony, she starts to look for his hidden assets. She investigates a ship registered under his name in Florida, only to discover that the freighter is the secret headquarters of Dr. Evil, a former KGB spy who now runs a global money laundering scheme.
Man, I hate it when that happens.
Once Kate stumbles on this secret, she needs police protection. She and her police angel grow close as they try to evade the baddies.
Not a good film.
13% Tomato Meter
14% Popcorn meter
As for Cindy Crawford, I think she did better than the reviewers gave her credit for. Although it is a common belief that supermodels are doomed to fail as actresses, the facts don’t always support that position. Models run through the same full gamut of performance as anyone else.
* Jessica Lange, after a rocky start, worked hard to become one of the finest actresses in modern film.
* Paulina Porizkova and Milla Jovovich haven’t achieved critical esteem at the Lange level, but have projected colorful personalities and have had their good moments.
* Others like Tyra Banks have managed to avoid complete embarrassment, but without any great successes.
* Wandering to the other end of the scale, Kathy Ireland has probably shown less acting ability than anyone in the history of acting.
Cindy got some bad notices for her performance here, earning adjectives like “awkward,” but I’d say she was about in the middle of the supermodel scale. She wasn’t at the level of mature Lange, but she was no worse than Lange was in King Kong. She showed less originality and flair for characterization than Porizkova and Jovovich, but she was light years beyond the Ireland level. I think James Berardinelli was quite accurate in his assessment that Cindy would have been a perfect mate for ex-hubby Richard Gere, if the only applicable criteria were looks and basic acting ability. She is a female Gere – very attractive, can deliver lines without stumbling over them, but almost completely devoid of personality on camera.
Topless? I guess technically yes, but she is not showing very much given the way that was shot.
Seems like a decent look to me
She was paired with William Baldwin, who is about the 3rd-best Baldwin. A better co-star might’ve helped raise her performance.
The script was pretty bad, tho. The sex scene in the train car came right after a narrow escape. “Wow! We barely got away with our lives and are still definitely in danger.”
“Time for sex!”
That movie was awful. One of the worst films ever though seeing Cindy Crawford topless and in a sex scene in my teens in the 90s were quite joyful.