Jessica, whose father killed her mother and committed suicide, is a police officer. While investigating a murder, she finds herself in the center of her own investigation, when her former lo... Read allJessica, whose father killed her mother and committed suicide, is a police officer. While investigating a murder, she finds herself in the center of her own investigation, when her former lovers start being murdered.Jessica, whose father killed her mother and committed suicide, is a police officer. While investigating a murder, she finds herself in the center of her own investigation, when her former lovers start being murdered.
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- Bob Sherman
- (as James Hechim)
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- TriviaJessica Shepard's promotion from Officer to Inspector isn't as big a jump as it sounds. The S.F.P.D., unlike nearly all other municipal police departments, does not have a traditional Detective rank. The Inspector rank is simply the next rank above Officer, and an Inspector's responsibilities are exactly like those of a Detective in most other police departments.
- GoofsIn the early bar scene with Jessica and John talking at the pool table, Jessica rolls the 8-ball into the corner pocket. Seconds later it appears in its original spot.
- Quotes
Wilson Jefferson: [Over the radio] We heard everything, commissioner.
Jessica Shepard: [smugly] You remember my old patrol partner Wilson don't you?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Creating a Twisted Web of Intrigue (2004)
- SoundtracksGet Up (I Feel Like Being Like a) Sex Machine
by James Brown, Bobby Byrd & Ron Lenhoff (as Ronald Lenhoff)
Performed by James Brown
Courtesy of Universal Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
With Jessica's promotion, she is partnered with Mike Delmarco (Andy Garcia). Jessica's job mentor is the man who raised her after her father's death, John Mills (Samuel L. Jackson). Mills is of high rank in the SFPD. Jessica's pastimes include drinking copious amounts of cabaret sauvignon and engaging in a series of one-night stands. She picks up good-looking but strange men in bars and has rough sex with them (But she does not return to the same guy twice.). Before long, each man is found dead; the one identifying fact with each is the cigarette burn on the back of a hand. The crime scenes reveal neither weapons nor signs of struggle. Obviously, suspicions are raised against Jessica.
Is Jessica committing murders and then blacking out? She certainly has no memory of them. As Jessica tries to uncover the truth, the realization strikes her that perhaps she is indeed the serial killer. Then again you might believe that anyone who has sexual relations with Jessica gets dispatched. Hmm, wonder who could be doing that? Lt. Tong (Russell Wong) wants to pull her off the case, but Mills asks if he has any evidence against her. "No, of course not," Tong replies. Mills' response is that using bad judgment is not the same as committing a crime, so Jessica stays on the assignment. Later a lab test of Jessica's blood reveals that someone is drugging her sauvignon with Rohypnol ("roofies"), a tranquilizer far more potent than Valium. But how is this action possible? Why doesn't Jessica catch on? No spoilers are provided here, but the denouement leaves a plot hole among others.
Although on location shooting is usually a positive, the lack of story development plus plot holes make this feature no better than formulaic. The viewer does not really see any detective, including Ms. Shepard, wracking his/her brain in attempting to figure out the profile or motives (modus operandi) of the killer. Others may be turned off by the inconsistent length of Ms. Judd's cropped hair style. Now as she is an attractive woman and is no skank, one may also have a difficult time believing her dangerous liaisons. The self-described "Sicilian Hillbilly" (at birth her last name was Ciminella) has done better work, like "Ruby in Paradise" (1993), a superior character study.
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- The Blackout Murders
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- Budget
- $50,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $25,198,598
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,904,299
- Feb 29, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $40,954,603
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1