Watching John Travolta ease into a role is always a pleasure, but this film version of Nelson DeMille's 1992 best-selling mystery novel is a lurid mess, a Southern gumbo simmering in Gothic cliche. Travolta plays Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, the Army's pointman in solving the kinky murder of Capt. Elizabeth Campbell (the gorgeous Leslie Stefanson).
It's not fittin' that the daughter of Gen. Joe Campbell (James Cromwell) - Fighting Joe is considering a run for vice president - should be found