A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I can't abide this movie's low rating here. a 6, maybe a 5, but a 3? Cmon, no way.Christopher McDonald, of memorable face, but unmemorable name, plays the boilerplate on-the-edge cop, Mickey Flannery (granted, cheesy Irish name for a cop) who is introduced as he loses his wife in a shooting related to a car-theft ring, which their child son, Jason, witnesses.McDonald, of Happy Gilmore fame as an insufferable dweeb, is likable, committed and tough here, the hero of the film. After the opening, the film moves forward in time to Jason being a young adult (at least 15 years older, though McDonald much at all, and is back on the force.Jason gets wrapped up with a criminal ring run by Judd Nelson's Gideon, the most compelling character of the movie. I'm not a big fan of Nelson in many other roles, but here, he's a real threat, and wears his mascara and LA-grunge post-hair-metal wear well. The film is almost a micro fashion document of 1993, with lots of grunge wear, with an LA angle. The pirate shirt does appear once, and it's stunning when it does, but Nelson is young and scary enough to make it work. Allysa Milano, is of course, ludicrously attractive in her apparel, which is a sequence of riot grrrl Gothic, and grunge outfits. She also acts well in her part. The club they habitate is also a good example of the raves/industrial parties that existed from the mid-80s into the mid-90s.McDonald is the other anchor to the film, constantly trying to maintain his composure while his son is increasingly drawn into a very personally threatening situation (while the son and dad are just trying to re-establish contact)and he's returned to the police force after a long absence. The audience knows McDonald/Flannery is right in his suspicions that Judd/Gideon is a lowlife murderer, but no one else believes him. It's a common plot device, but used very effectively over a long arc in this film. Then, at the end, we find that not only was McDonald right, but he was set up from the start, not just on one level, but multiple levels to the very start years earlier.My one biggest complaint with the plot would be why would a smart operator like Gideon attract so much police attention by killing two young women? Framing son and father is at least sort of a plausible explanation that the film stays true to and follows through on, in some surprising and visually exciting action scenes.It's not a masterpiece by any means, and it's title assures it remain in obscurity, but it's a totally competent cop yarn with strong family and dept corruption subtexts. Like many low budget films, it turns out to be an excellent period piece, shot from its current reality.

OK people, I'm going to honest with you. I have seen half an hour of this movie, and not from the beginning. Furthermore, by the time I caught this movie (at 1 am), I was drunk and half asleep, so I don't know how much I got from this film. What I saw was Judd Nelson as a tough villain dressed like Gothic pirate and "Shooter McGavin" (from Happy Glimore) as no-nonsense cop with a grudge against Nelson. Also, there was a young man played by someone I don't know, who happened to be the cop's son. Anyway, to make it short,in the part of the movie which I saw, the cop's son went to a metal bar owned by the goth pirate, who introduced a red hot smoking blonde to the cop's son, who later on supposedly killed that hot smoking blonde.Then, there was scene at the metal club where Nelson tells McGavin he is going to murder his son and after that I completely fall asleep.I know this review is a bit useless, but I wanted to write it because the movie looked to me as a strange thing, o perhaps I was hammered. Anyway, see this movie for yourselves (if you can find it). A piece of advice, don't watch it while being drunk or half asleep, for it's going to confuse you a bit more. Cheers

I always had a soft spot for anything starring Alyssa Milano and Judd Nelson was another interesting inclusion. As for the film itself… did I mention Alyssa Milano was in it. Yep I'm really clutching at straws. Actually it's not that bad. Well the smoking hot Milano might be in it, but she doesn't get much screen credit. Rats! Anyway 'Conflict of Interest' is a routine b-grade crime picture that stays in first gear for most part, and unsuccessfully tries to milk out its neon lighting and heavy metal scene. Even with its admirable pacing and stylishly slick look for such a budget, the direction is too pedestrian and the script is torpidly delivered. The action is productively executed, but not all that exciting or explosive. The story formulates the usual dramatics of a police detective, Mickey Flannery who's police badge was stripped off him for killing his wife's murderer. We move seven years into the present where he's accepted back into the force and he'll see his son for the first time since his wife was murdered. However his rebellious punk son is connected to a murder in the sordidly kinky metal music underworld. Trying to prove his son's innocence he goes on a mission to prove the club owner Gideon is behind it all, and this means that he could lose his badge again. I would've like it more it didn't come across as forced and manipulative, and some of those occurrences are too elaborately planned that it leaves it being silly and daft. Thrown in for good measure is a dose of nudity and sex. Christopher McDonald gives a variable performance in the lead role and Nelson's smooth, eye-liner wearing badass villain was rather rib-tickling. And that wasn't intentional either. Milano is wasted, Zia Harris is fair and the beautiful Dey Young comes up solid. There's also some good support by veterans Lee de Broux and Harrison Page. Not a bad film, but not particularly a memorable one either.

This is one movie for the ages! Why it was never released on a more global scale still astonishes me to no avail. The first ten minutes of the movie literally had me at the edge of my seat. I didn't see any of the rest of the film, but I know that it still probably delivers those same dramatic punches one right after the other.This movie is truly the crowning achievement of one of America's top young child celebrities, Joel Katz. Portraying the role of "Young Jason", he delivers his academy award dodging performance so well I literally burst into tears after hearing his cries after his mother was randomly shot in broad daylight with a .50 desert eagle, right in front of his eyes. This spectacular actor then skyrocketed to fame with other memorable roles, such as the role of a random child in "Cheers", the Mario Paint commerical, and most recently, a spokesman for Impontency International.