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Denis Leary is New York detective Ray Pluto, a cop with a bad back, bad conscience and bad spiel. Liz Hurley is chiropractor Ann Beamer, a good woman with a no-nonsense attitude to life. ""Let's get cracking"," Ann says as she gets to work sorting out Ray's vertebrae, a line that's meant to be knowingly naff but comes across as plain naff.
Similar misjudgements abound in indie helmer and scripter Tom DiCillo's otherwise entertaining collision between twisty crime drama and sparky rom-com. It begins when Ray's back gives out during a psycho's murderous spree at a diner, leaving our hero to face the indignity of having an infant-school anklebiter take down the bad guy. Still, it brings our twosome together for a relationship which, in itself, is believable, funny and touching - - even if it is undermined by Hurley's insistence on treating thesping as if it were just a matter of impersonating a pony about to bolt.
