You won't be disappointed!

Sorry, this movie sucks

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

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

****SPOILERS**** With hot shot lawyer Rafe Marino, James Thomas, getting the shocking news that his best friend Tommy Heaton, Marc Poirier, suddenly dropped dead of a heart attack at age 34 while relaxing in his jacuzzi he decides to see if there was any foul play involved. It's at Tommy's funeral that Rafe meets rich and pretty businesswoman Laura Clifford,Charisma Carpenter, who was Tommy's girlfriend at the time of his death. Right away Rafe forgets why he was there, to pay his last respects to his friend Tommy, and falls heads over heels for Laura. It's later that Rafe find out that Laura's other two boyfriends before Tommy died, by dropping dead in a jacuzzi, the some way Tommy did!Getting help for an old high school flame of his Det.Gloria Moretti, Victoria Sanchez, Rafe starts to have the police lab test Tommy's body to see if anything he ate or drank before the fatal dip in his jacuzzi had anything to do with his death. That as well as for Laura's other two lovers who met the same fate, sudden death of a heart attack, as he did. While doing that Rafe gets a number of fax's threatening him if he keeps on probing in what caused Tommy's death as well as weird phone calls, left on his answering machine, from some crazy woman with a distinct southern accent telling him to lay off his investigation of Tommy's death or else!***SPOILERS*** Rafe who wasn't going to go away from trying to find Tommy's killer soon became a target of the killer himself who planned to do him in this time in the shower, since he didn't have a jacuzzi, the first chance he or she got. With Rafe totally incapacitated, from the lotion he was handed to use by the killer, Det. Gloria Moretti busted into the hot shower and prevented the by now unconscious Rafe from getting iced! As we as well as Rafe & Gloria found out the killer had a problem with rejection that stemmed from his or her childhood. That hang up or problem he carried well into his adulthood by refusing to get help, in a local mental institution, to have it cured.

Tommy Heaton dies and his friend lawyer Rafe Marino (James Thomas) slowly suspects foul-play. Rafe starts finding a series of other death like Tommy. He investigates with his cop friend Gloria Moretti (Victoria Sanchez)'s help. He keeps running into Laura Clifford (Charisma Carpenter) and starts a passionate relationship with her.James Thomas is a rather bland lead. Every woman in this is a thirtysomething former hot girl. There is a blurry forgettable sameness about all the actresses except for Carpenter and Sanchez. The movie is trying too hard to be sexual which comes off very cheesy and soft-porny. It's a murder mystery with a flashing neon sign flashing on Charisma Carpenter. The investigation is slow and boring. It's a lower rate Lifetime TV movie. By the time the twist comes, the interest is long gone.

I had some outdoor activity delayed by a heavy rain, so flipped-on t.v. just as this movie was beginning.In the first few minutes, when the main four characters (James Thomas (Rafe); Victoria Sanchez (Gloria); Charisma Carpenter (Laura); and Karen Cliché (Ellen) were all introduced on-screen, one thought immediately came to mind.I remembered a funny scene in "Everybody Loves Raymond." Peter Boyle, as Ray's Dad is talking to Robert Culp, who played Ray's father-in-law. I think it was the show where Culp and wife had separated, but he appeared at a family gathering with an older, plain new girlfriend, rather than a younger "trophy" type which everybody was expecting.Talking with him while the women elsewhere, Boyle's "Frank" character expressed to Culp his puzzlement and curiosity about the reason for this surprising choice. He noted Culp was a good-looking guy, and then said something like "You've got a full set of teeth, AND THEN SOME."Robert Culp has always been one of these people with a pleasant appearance, along with a set of prodigious choppers, impossible to ignore.Well, the four leads in this flick must have four of, say, the other 49 among the top 50 or so sets of teeth in the country, and perhaps the world. All of them are handsome specimens and there is more ivory flashing across the screen than you'll find in a documentary about elephant herds.Among the mysterious Laura, his old friend (who'd like to be more), Gloria, as well as the equally-attractive Ellen (to provide to the mystery) - James Thomas/Rafe has one of the better gigs ever presented to a male lead.As a "Lifetime" presentation, with personnel a bit down the chain from Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Glenn Close, etc., as well as budget and production constraints, we wouldn't expect this to rival "Fatal Attraction," "Basic Instinct," and the like. It is, perhaps, the "poor man's version" of these. But it does present a far more attractive cast and a bit better quality scenery than typical of the Lifetime genre, and there are worse ways to spend a couple of hours on a rainy day, awaiting the weather to clear.

Really good made for TV movie with Charisma displaying her fantastic sexual appeal on camera, she is definitely fantasy material. The plot was above average as far as lifetime movies are concerned, although I didn't really prefer the ending, the bulk more than made up for it.Charisma really needs to get her face into a big screen production, because a woman this fantastic is being drastically underused in this business.Frankly, I can't wait to see more of her future projects, hoping she graces the entertainment industry for a long time to come.