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Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

best movie i've ever seen.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

This has to be one of the funniest movies not billed as a comedy.Kevin Kline and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio are just superb and absolutely shine and Alan Rickman almost steals the movie. He really does steal every scene he is in. Danny Aiello must also get a mention for a great performance. Very underrated and under appreciated movie.

Lame and boring. I had to give up at 48 minutes. Even worse than 50 shades of grey.

Abominably dumb. So dumb it doesn't even deserve the "b" in "dumb." Just plain d-u-m. The scriptwriter obviously doesn't know how computers work (what else is new), how criminal minds work, how police work works, or how girls work. It's not funny enough to be black comedy (maybe ecru or taupe comedy, at best), not gripping enough to be drama, and not tantalizing or charming enough to be romance. It's not even active enough to be a precursor of the silly-but-spectacular action genre. There certainly is a high concentration of respectable acting talent involved, but they must have been wondering why they were called in to begin with. A few day laborers could have handled the job just as well. The only character that really rings true is Ed, the artist. But there is absolutely no logical justification for his involvement. Maybe that's the clue to the real crime in this movie: it's a secret autobiography of a frustrated artist who wishes he could play with cops, computers, and girls.

IF YOU ARE THINKING OF WATCHING THIS FOR THE FIRS TIME, SAVE YOURSELF THE TIME AND GO TRIM YOUR TOENAILS...This movie is a perfect example of 1970s shlock movies. It was a transition period for Hollywood, so it was a period they had to go through, as they came out of the 1950s-1960s with the terrible acting styles of the Doris Day era. We, the viewing audience had to endure it all, but holy jumpin' jehosephat, some of them sucked.The words they put into these actors' mouths - I am shocked they didn't rebel against the writers and directors with, "WTF? Are you seriously expecting me to speak THOSE words?" Who wrote this, the kid in Pink Floyd's "The Wall" video who "makes himself out to be a poet"? It is just PAINFUL to listen to the dialog. The term "gratuitous nudity" probably began with this movie. Rickman as a bad Maynard G Krebs slash Vincent van Gogh is bad enough, but the nude bimbo "model" in this one is just plain embarrassing for American cinema. And Rod Steiger somehow forgot how to act some time before he signed to play the mayor. Or was he that bad all the time and we just didn't notice? Actually, I have to put the low level of this on the director's shoulders - he has authority to overrule bad writing and bad acting and turn it into something palatable. Danny Aiello, Harvey Keitel, Sarandon are just abysmal in this one.I award this 1 star, which is about 2 stars more than it deserves. I give it -10 stars on both writing and directing. May God have mercy on their souls...