I came across this one on Netflix streaming movies. The main leads are all good in their roles. It is based on the real serial killer in Anchorage, Alaska and how one trooper's persistence finally was able to put him away.
Nicolas Cage is trooper Jack Halcombe, about to leave the job for another in a few weeks. But he is bothered by the occasional young women, often prostitutes, who either go missing or turn up dead. He becomes a man on a mission to identify and imprison the guy.
He gets key help from Vanessa Hudgens as teenage prostitute Cindy Paulson who had been abducted by the suspected serial killer but had gotten away. She provides key observations that lead them to the man.
Looking quite remarkably like the real guy (google search images) John Cusack is Robert Hansen. He had a long history of various arrests, and admitted to frequenting prostitutes for things he didn't want his wife to do. He was also a pilot of a small plane and a big game hunter.
While this movie is good overall at times it seemed a bit disjointed. I would have liked that the story be a bit "tighter."
SPOILERS: It turns out Hansen was quite deranged, he would capture young women, fly them to his favorite remote locations, free them, then use a powerful rifle and scope to hunt them down and kill them, burying them where they died. At home he kept a map, with marks at a number of places, it turned out to be the places he killed various girls.
Nicolas Cage is trooper Jack Halcombe, about to leave the job for another in a few weeks. But he is bothered by the occasional young women, often prostitutes, who either go missing or turn up dead. He becomes a man on a mission to identify and imprison the guy.
He gets key help from Vanessa Hudgens as teenage prostitute Cindy Paulson who had been abducted by the suspected serial killer but had gotten away. She provides key observations that lead them to the man.
Looking quite remarkably like the real guy (google search images) John Cusack is Robert Hansen. He had a long history of various arrests, and admitted to frequenting prostitutes for things he didn't want his wife to do. He was also a pilot of a small plane and a big game hunter.
While this movie is good overall at times it seemed a bit disjointed. I would have liked that the story be a bit "tighter."
SPOILERS: It turns out Hansen was quite deranged, he would capture young women, fly them to his favorite remote locations, free them, then use a powerful rifle and scope to hunt them down and kill them, burying them where they died. At home he kept a map, with marks at a number of places, it turned out to be the places he killed various girls.