Dead Evidence

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Summary: KIWI KILLER
Review: DEAD EVIDENCE is a mystery thriller set and filmed in New Zealand. That's a change, huh? Angela Dotchin plays Jodie, a wannabe private eye who is working as girl Friday for a rather ineffective boorish boss. One day she overhears her boss telling his female client that there's nothing he can do for her husband. The husband is played by C. Thomas Howell, looking unusually buff and macho, and he is in jail for the rape and murder of a young girl five years ago. His appeal is coming up and wife believes that a recent similar killing in the same neck of the woods may have been done by the same man who killed the previous girl. She says hubby is innocent. When the PI turns her down, Jodie decides to investigate on her own and in the process loses her job. She hooks up with an ex-cop played quite handily by Kevin Smith, a roughened hunk, buff and hard-boiled. Their private investigation goes awry when Howell breaks out of prison and goes to kill the cop he feels framed him. During this break, Howell accidentally wounds Smith and Dotchin is on her own. Her trail leads to a kindly veterinarian who just might be the killer.
The pace is tight and although there aren't any surprises once the killer is identified, Smith and Dotchin have a good chemistry and they are different kinds of heroes.
This is a pleasant surprise and worth viewing if you like the film noir type of mystery.

Rating:
Summary: KIWI KILLER
Review: DEAD EVIDENCE is a mystery thriller set and filmed in New Zealand. That's a change, huh? Angela Dotchin plays Jodie, a wannabe private eye who is working as girl Friday for a rather ineffective boorish boss. One day she overhears her boss telling his female client that there's nothing he can do for her husband. The husband is played by C. Thomas Howell, looking unusually buff and macho, and he is in jail for the rape and murder of a young girl five years ago. His appeal is coming up and wife believes that a recent similar killing in the same neck of the woods may have been done by the same man who killed the previous girl. She says hubby is innocent. When the PI turns her down, Jodie decides to investigate on her own and in the process loses her job. She hooks up with an ex-cop played quite handily by Kevin Smith, a roughened hunk, buff and hard-boiled. Their private investigation goes awry when Howell breaks out of prison and goes to kill the cop he feels framed him. During this break, Howell accidentally wounds Smith and Dotchin is on her own. Her trail leads to a kindly veterinarian who just might be the killer.
The pace is tight and although there aren't any surprises once the killer is identified, Smith and Dotchin have a good chemistry and they are different kinds of heroes.
This is a pleasant surprise and worth viewing if you like the film noir type of mystery.