Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Sick Product of a Sick System

Film Perfection

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

film is aptly named because once in a while you come across a film which provides an occasional hell to have to watch...actually this one would be highly recommended for viewing by an arborist- wooden plot, wooden script, wooden acting, etc, etc, etc....I like tom berenger, but this is the equivalent of painting by numbers on steroids...and not even the nude scenes can help this turkey, but I can highly recommend it if you want to have a nice nap mid-movie, then wake up not feeling as though you missed anything...berenger's imaginary visits by the female missing from the crime scene are particularly annoying and ridiculous and add absolutely nothing to the plot...all in all such drivel that I was compelled to stop watching a little over halfway through, which after reading the reviews, turned out to be a wise move...the people advocating this disaster as a triumph are in need of god knows what, but taste comes forefront to my mind

This is the quintessential B-movie. Despite the presence of some recognizable "talents" in the cast, it is as obvious and amateur as films with budgets over $1 million get. It seems as though Tom Berenger, who also produced the film, decided he wanted to be in a movie where he would get to "work" with the always semi-nude Kari Wuhrer. Fortunately there is ample screen time for Wuhrer, who haunts Berenger ala Hamlet's ghost as a Daisy Duke-ish trollop. Berenger's buddy Stephen Lang (they worked together on Gettysburg) probably didn't need much convincing for a role featuring several sex scenes with the curvaceous Kari. Tom was probably chatting about making the movie with pal and regular co-star Charlie Sheen (Platoon and Major League), who suggested that Valeria Golino (whom Sheen got to know filming Hot Shots) would have the perfect nipple's for Berenger's sex scene. The film features shots of the actors at needlessly odd angles, and has several lines that are unintentionally laugh out loud funny. Poor Ellen Greene wastes a few minutes picking up her check, and Berenger's tearful admission is a hoot. 20 minutes into the film (SPOILER ALERT), you see Geoffrey Lewis (who has perfected the dim wit role) digging a grave-sized hole, but it's not until an hour later that voila, Berenger realizes that might be a good place to look for a dead body. If you have a six-pack and are in an MST3K kind of mood, rent this and ad-lib your night away.

"An Occasional Hell" is a low point in Tom Berenger's career. His acting in this picture is so lifeless that when people refuse to tell him what they know about the case he's investigating, he looks as if he's about to say "Fine, what do I care anyway?". The script is so slow-moving that at times it doesn't seem to be moving at all, and the direction is so pedestrian that, without the brief flashes of nudity, this could easily pass off as a TV movie. Apparently everyone associated with this movie was just too tired to even try making something good out of it. Everyone, that is, except Kari Wuhrer, who is incredibly sexy as always, and gives the film its only spark; sadly, her role is all-too-brief. (*1/2)

I've seen Valeria Golino in comedies, but till now not in such a film. In this film she shows what an allround actress can. I was deeply impressed by both of the players, Tom and Valeria. It's a pity that I didn't see the full length of the film, but it held me in my chair from the beginning to the end. My advice: See the movie.