Homicide: The Movie ran on Sleuth the other night. Concept of using
Gee's shooting to bring everyone together (even the dead ones) seems
like a good idea now, after all. I'd expected film to be a
business-as-usual extended episode, but it makes more sense that people
had moved on in a year's time, as per the show's usual rotation of cast
members, and needed to be herded together in order to become visible.
Fantasy sequences of Gee's dreams while he's unconscious go a bit
against the show's usual realism. A similar sequence portraying
Pembleton's stroke on the regular series was just enough, but Gee's --
transfiguration I guess -- is too sentimental, and resembles 'way too
much the bathos of those "Very Special" episodes of NYPD Blue. Homicide
imitate an ABC drama?
A boom mike's almost bopping Munch on the forehead helps bring us back
to cinema realism of original series. Russert's mousy brown hair is a
greasy mistake.
Homicide: The Movie, by the way, is not to be mistaken for that strange,
unsatisfying theatrical film written by David Mamet ('nuff said) and
starring Joseph Mantegna.
Bob A
"Aside from that, Mrs. Kennedy, how did you enjoy the motorcade?"
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