J Gary Fox – Google

I love his Bosch stories, but Connelly has a dud in this one. Too many coincidences and impossibilities are in the novel to make the story Implausible and less enjoyable . The main character – Cassie Black – is threatened and it looks impossible for her to escape the deadly threat. Impossible! But then an uneven greater threat is thrown in on top of that - and then another - and another - and another. The villain – the murderer – always slowly, and carefully, makes the victim suffer before he executes them. This is done over and …. I won’t repeat “over” a dozen times otherwise I’ll be copying Connelly in Void Moon.

Everybody is chain, smoking and lighting up throughout the movie. It is almost a comedy of cigarette lighting. It’s so distracting from the plot and dialogue and unnecessary. We GET IT in the first scene… She is a chain smoke! In the scenes of meetings, they all have to light up and smoke constantly. What is happening on the battlefield is not clearly explained. The scene with Kissinger is also a parody. More words about borscht the she feeds him then discussing the treaty with Egypt she is now signing. I wonder if the cigarette companies weren’t the backers of this movie.