I like it, but I wonder whether I’d appreciate it as much if I didn’t already know the story. I know we don’t do mini-series on TV anymore (it seems that when I was younger, everything was a mini-series, or at least two, two-hour movies of the week) but this movie would really benefit from being longer. Her good, meaty lines give them a hook for possible future movies, too. Lots more tension between them here than I recall from the book. And then he’s so easily appeased when Lucas offers to send someone to watch them at the restaurant. Sure, he’s feeling pressure from Carmel, but that level of panic over what she might do to him seems a bit out of line. Big difference in the movie-we’re only 13 minutes in and she’s drilling through Rolo’s kneecaps.Īlso interesting: In the book, it’s Carmel who reaches out to Clara, making vacation plans, etc. And Hale’s not as good looking as I would have imagined.Ĭarmel Loan-sanity is over-ratedNow, if you read the book, you’ll know that Carmel is bug-fuck crazy. It makes her obsession with him a little easier to understand. Don’t remember that from the book, but it might have happened. ![]() Hale and Carmel had an affair in the past. I’m not a fan of voice-overs, though I do know that sometimes, like prologues in thrillers, they’re necessary. Harmon said when we interviewed him that the film would be stylistic and “noir”-esque, and that fits with the voice-over, though I hope they don’t continue it too long. Right up front even those of us who haven’t read any of the books get a sense of Davenport’s less-than-cop-like behavior. I love how this movie starts with the break-in into Carmel’s apartment and Davenport in a stocking mask. I hope you’ll share yours in the comments! Here are my thoughts as I watched the movie. Well, last night I got my questions answered. But Lucas Davenport? And could any TV movie match the picture in my heads of Lucas? Of Sherrill? Of Carmel and Clara? Of Minneapolis itself? ![]() 22 caliber!When I first heard that USA Network was making a movie of Certain Prey, the tenth of John Sandford’s Prey novels, with Mark Harmon taking the role of Lucas Davenport, I wasn’t’t sure what to think. Lucas has a thing for Carmel’s shoes…they’re.
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