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...without her favorite handbag which hangs on her bedpost. Nor would she have left all her jewelry at home, much less in the handbag where it would have gotten tangled-up and scratched. And she absolutely would not have left her wedding ring. So she was murdered. L.B. Jeffries, "Jeff" for short, wants to know what Mr. Thorwald was doing making three trips to and from his apartment at three in the morning with his salesman's case. It was raining. Where was he going? And what about the truck he sent away? And was it really Mrs. Thorwald...
Lisa Carol Freemont struts her stuff and her street smarts by investigating the murder while Jeff and Stella watch from across the way. She is trying to convince her love Jeff that she can endure the danger and hardship he tackles on his photography assignments. She doesn't have to be holed up in some fashion salon or at the editor's desk of a fashion magazine. She's an independent gal who will prove to Jeff that even though she is from Park Avenue and knows the ritziest people in town (and could get him fashion shoots or portrait...
...mirabile visu, "Speed" is not Ted on a bus. Reeves' character Jack Trevens is tough and somehow intense. The movie doesn't try to make him out to be a rocket scientist--his partner Harry (Jeff Daniels) provides the technical smarts, constantly telling Travens the why and wherefore of the bombs they encounter. But Travens is believably street-smart, able to think on his feet...
...Jeff Daniels provides some balance as Travens' older, slightly more jaded partner, Harry. He can act like a nut, but ask him a question about a bomb and suddenly he's Mr. Wizard, spouting off details about detonation wires and weird timers. He seems to be in constant analysis mode. And the gear the LAPD folks wear is really cool--black and futuristic, a cross between battle armor and the suits in "Dune." They look like they can handle anything...
...only thing that is worse then the simple, predictable yet still nauseating ending of this film is the beginning because it raises a number of false hopes, such that Jeff Bridges reads his scripts, that Tommy Lee Jones will get some help, that you haven't just wasted $7.50 and two hours of your life. These hopes, you find out very quickly, are just that--false...