This was my least favorite of the Ashley movies L. and I watched. I have heard of this movie for years but never watched it. This is an Alex Cross movie and I know the name and knew there had been movies made about him and a new show that I still haven't checked out. Cross' niece ends up missing and he heads to North Carolina to find her. He gets there and waits for hours and all the police there are like “We do things slow here.” Fuck you, dude! He sees that there is a whole ass wall full of missing women from the area. A couple of them have been found all scalped and tied up. Meanwhile a doctor named Kate McTiernan (who kickboxes on the side) is at home sleeping and hearing all of the spooky sounds. She finally races downstairs and runs into her fish tank that was placed at the end of the stairs. By the way, before this dude calling himself Casanova showed up her house was already spooky looking.
Kate wakes up in his literal mancave and he explains that there are rules she has to follow. Soon as he leaves she starts breaking all of them. There are other women there and they are alive. He drugs her when he shows up. One day she whomps his punkass and bursts out into the woods and jumps down a waterfall. By the way, I read that the actress wanted to do the stunt herself. Nah. Even the stuntman that did it almost hit the rocks on the way down. Cross finds her at the hospital and discovers that she was drugged after doctors were like “Her body just shutting down.” She tells Cross what she can remember which is not all that much. This is when the movie starts getting all twisty and turny and made me like it all that much. Turns out there are two guys doing these crimes in two states and working together in some strange sort of competition. This was an okay movie but didn't give me enough time to hate the killers or get that invested in Cross himself.
Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross
Ashley Judd as Kate McTiernan
Cary Elwes as Casanova/Nick Ruskin
Tony Goldwyn as William Rudolph
Jay O. Sanders as Kyle Craig
Bill Nunn as Sampson
Brian Cox as Chief Hatfield
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