Excellent adaptation.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

***SPOILERS*** Boring police flick about an undercover agent Frank Spello, James Belushi, biting off far more the he can chew and getting whacked for doing it. It's Spello who got himself arrested and sent to prison to at fist save and then befriend Chicago Mafia Boss Big Sal, Henry Silva, from getting knifed in the prison lunchroom. It's later that Big Sal give him a job in his organization as a pizza delivery and towel boy, at a mob controlled whorehouse, when he got out of prison. No sooner then you can say Geronimo is when Spello gets himself involved with D.A Gina Gallagher, Tracy Needham, who's job it is to put the Mifia members and Columbian drug dealers behind bars! It's Gina who has a hit put on her for busting big time Colombian drug kingpin Gil Rivera, Miguel Perez, for money laundering. That after he beat a murder rap for gunning down a DEA agent and his informer in the jungles of Columbia.As for Gina she's now in hot water in that Rivera's fellow drug dealer Jairo Jaramilo, Richard Zauaglia, is the person who put out the hit in retaliation for her sending his good friend and fellow drug kingpin Gil Rivera up the river in a federal penitentiary for life plus 150 years. It's then when Gina's very out of shape and extremely overweight, how could anyone not notice, Godfather retired Chicago detective Moe Ryan, Charles Durning,gets himself involved in order for him to keep her from getting whacked. But what's really going on is that a top member in the D.A's office Jane Newheart, JoeBeth Williams, is keeping vital information from the police in what's to come down by using an informant's information to farther her career and thus putting a number of law enforcement member in the Chicago Police Department as well as FBI & DEA men in mortal danger.Almost impossible to follow with all the sub-plots added in the film plods along with even those in it seeming to lose interest as well as those of us watching. There's a number of shootouts and a grizzly home invasion that ends with those involved in it getting whacked by the person who ordered it before they can safely fly out of the country and back home to Columbia. About the best scene in the film is the meeting between the Columbian drug dealers and their Mafia contact Big Sal at a Chicago restaurant where the truth comes out, over a couple of cups of espresso coffee, in what's really going on between them that has to do with undercover FBI Agent Spello. It's Spello who then stupidity blew his cover as well as wire and ended up getting blasted for it.***SPOILERS*** The really meaningless ending really didn't solve anything but only proved to us that crime does not pay but mostly for those in law enforcement who want to farther their careers at the expense of their fellow law enforcers with the criminal element free to commit their life of crime. For as long as play ball, by being snitches and informers, for those who are out to arrest and put them out of business!

When I was out DVD shopping, I found this film advertised on its cover as a James Belushi mole-in-prison movie (undercover cop looking to break a crime boss) and with the likes of HenrySilva, JoBeth Williams and Charles Durning, I was expecting a fairly decent film despite only paying £1 for it.This however was one of those marketing con-jobs trying to promote a fairly awful TV movie which starred Tracey Needham (who looks a bit like Maggie Grace of the TV series Lost)as a prosecutor being hunted down by the Colombian mafia for sending down their boss.James Belushi's role is nothing more than a cameo.The film rushes in at 100 mph with the "prison" part over in a matter of 4 minutes and it can't make its mind up whether its a TV pilot, a violent b-movie or a very bad black comedy. Ironically the film tends to drag at the end which is tedious at best.I've never seen so many good actors wasted like this especially with James Belushi given little to do. The plot is ridiculous and the ending pathetic.The movie is a bomb and I can only assume that the aforementioned actors were stuck for work when this came along.Avoid if you can.

My God what a terrible insult to the film world. The fact that I was very ill, sick off work and nothing else to watch but daytime television made it seem worse. My girlfriend bought this film, along with 3 others on one DVD for £2, so what did she expect for 50 pence a film.I hate rape scenes in a film so watching this just made me feel sicker than I allready did. So this lawyer puts this thug behind bars and he takes it personal and seeks revenge. James Belushi attracted me to it, one of the other films on this DVD was Red Surf also staring George Clooney, but both these films use the big names to attract an audience and falsley lead them down a dark tunnel with no light at the end of it. At least Red Surf starred George Clooney, Belushi made a brief cameo role in this film and was given star credit. The scene where he falls in love with her and blah blah blah, is daft, it spoils a crap movie, if that's possible, the lead women is hot though.

Routine tv movie drama starring some actors who have done bigger and better things but seemed to be in this movie just for the paycheck.The movie "stars" James Belushi,JoBeth Williams,Charles Durning,and Tracey Needham in a plot that is totally unbelievable,filled with poor writing,and bad acting.Belushi,himself,is hardly in the film.It is true Tracey Needham looks great in the film,and one of the reasons for her healthy look is that she was pregnant while doing this movie.It is then hard to believe that a female DA in high heels(Needham) and an elderly heavyset cop(Durning) are working together and staying ahead and outsmarting the drug cartel that wants Needham's character killed.The real name of the film is Backlash.Horrendous is more like it.