(Rated R, 109 min.)
Opens Jan. 28
A startling journey into obsession, the film tells the story of an intelligence agent so taken by a beautiful killer, he cannot bear to apprehend her.
Ewan McGregor stars as the Eye, a lonely, isolated British intelligence agent whose wife and daughter have gone AWOL on him. The Eye’s current mission is to track Joanna Eris (Ashley Judd), a woman suspected of blackmailing the son of a prominent man. As he follows her, he becomes increasingly fascinated with this enigmatic femme fatale and the somewhat paralleling story their histories share.
K.D. Lang serves as the fairy-godmother-go-between-on-line for McGregor and his client assignments, sympathetic to McGregor’s need to be reeled back into reality. Patrick Bergin does an excellent job as the first love interest to Judd’s twisted character with a daddy fetish. Jason Priestly as the junkie punker in a short-lived role that adds to a fascinating story that slowly unravels, to not the ending I would have hoped for, but nonetheless kept me intrigued.