Great movie! This is definitely one of my all time favorites in the supernatural suspense collection. Seems Schwarzenegger took a monumental leap-of-faith on McTiernan because, based on this wafer-thin affidavit, he wasn't ready for the next phase. While Pommier is photographing them, it degenerates into a Motley Crue music video. An interlude with a kindly nun doesn't decipher the cryptic, impenetrable storyline any further. If this were a kamikaze satire on yuppie-in-danger movies, it would be a riot but sadly, McTiernan is the Claudio Fragasso who devoutly believes that leather-clad biker gangs in a blackout van are the sources for helter-skelter in the audience's nervous system. To his disadvantage, McTiernan also wedges a malapropos rock-n'-roll guitar stingers and a heartbeat during the "suspense" in what should otherwise be a classy, supernatural affair. The physicians and nurses act awfully cavalier about the "lunatic" Pommier's extemporaneous death (and the staff is somehow fluent in French). It's also not a flattering portrait for hospitals. The most laughably mundane is a possessed Flax reciting verbatim Pommier's conversation with a real-estate agent. From that point onward, Flax rhapsodizes about flashbacks to sociologist Jean-Charles Pommier's (Brosnan) existence before his untimely departure. Eileen Flax's (Leslie-Anne Down with Virginia Madsen's poutiness) ear and dopey staging for a jump scare. His escape from captivity is incompetently drenched in a slow-motion frame rate (which is the padding for most scenes) as he whispers into Dr. Shackled in handcuffs while babbling French nonsense, Pierce Brosnan is eye-rollingly cheesy in his shellshocked hysteria and broadly nasal Inspector Clouseau accent. What did he see? He certainly has a cinematic eye with blue blips on the nocturnal Los Angeles skyline. Arnold Schwarzenegger screened this and envisioned him as the perfect candidate for his extraterrestrial action flick.
A demo reel if you will for his next gig which was the massively popularized Predator. This extremely risible, effete and addlepated film was basically an audition for John McTiernan.
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