utgard14

This one was a real disappointment. I love discovering old films I have never seen before. In the last year I've found many gems from Cannon, who also released this, so I looked forward to adding Ordeal by Innocence to the list. Unfortunately, this film is an incoherent monotonous mess. Scene after scene of Donald Sutherland confronting unpleasant people then being chewed out by the police, all the while sudden cuts to black & white flashbacks that are often confusing. The flashbacks bounce around too, sometimes they are scenes from before the film started and sometimes they are scenes within the film we have already seen. Then there are the ones where the images are from one scene while dialogue from another scene is played over it. It's a mess that will leave you with a headache. I grew very tired and bored with this movie and just wanted it to end. The plot is like Get Carter with brain damage. The only positive is some nudity but even that's undercut by the distracting fact the actress is obviously very cold. All I could think about was how cheap this movie must have been that they couldn't afford to film a nude scene in a room with heat.