Another in a string of bland films starring the talented Wesley Snipes, this one is a standard murder mystery-thriller set in Washington, an increasingly popular film setting for mayhem in the 1990s. The story, featuring a preposterous plot concerning the efforts to cover up the murder of an attractive blonde in a White House bathroom, is illogical, and, at the same time, so blandly predictable in its attempts to cover itself with action, that only the slowest of audiences could remain in suspense about the ending for long. Snipes does the best he can with the blank character of the police detective, whose only distinguishing characteristic seems to be an interest in constructing scale models of Civil War battles. As for Dennis Miller, as Snipes' sidekick, and Diane Lane, as a maverick Secret Service agent, the less said the better. The film boasts an impressive cast, including Alan Alda, Daniel Benzali, Ronny Cox, Harris Yulin, and Diane Baker. Benzali, as White House security chief, has some of the film's best moments.