Color of Night

Richard Rush had a box office hit with FREEBIE AND THE BEAN in the mid Seventies so it should really come as no surprise that he would make such as film as COLOR OF NIGHT in the mid Nineties.Universally panned and considered by some to be one of the worst films ever made, COLOR OF NIGHT is not without it charms. Oh, I'm not saying it isn't bad because frankly it's an awful film but given this choice of this or THE SOUND OF MUSIC...well...I think you know where I'm going here. The premise is an interesting one. A colour-blind psychiatrist takes over a friends therapy group after he is shuffled prematurely from this mortal coil. Scott Bakula, sadly, is the one doing the shuffle and Bruce Willis is the one doing the taking over in his "not so rose coloured glasses". Of course, there is a psycho in the therapy group who sets their sights on Willis and there is where the "thiller" part in this soft core mess begins. I say "thriller" because the plot has more fucking holes in it than a whiffle ball. Who cares, you get to see Jane March naked for most of the film and that to me more than justifies it having been made. Back to the therapy group...when you have Lance Henricksen, Kevin J. O'Connor and Brad Dourif in a shrink group that would set some serious damn Spidey-senses a tinglin' to get my ass straight the hell out of there...but then again Willis's Dr. Capa is not the sharpest knife in the drawer or he would have figured out he was boning a friggin' whack job a quarter of the way into the film. Whoops...did I give away the plot??????? No worries, you'll have it figured out long before Dr. Capa does. Add Lesley Ann Warren to said therapy group as a raging nympho and you have a recipe for a mighty fine little party. Then there is Ruben Blades...shame he had to waste the performance of a lifetime here.....it's worth watching just to hear him curse. So, while being a jumbled mess in the story department it still does provide some fine action and stunningly lush visuals and if nothing else there is Bruce Willis supposedly pulling a Micky Rourke and doing the nasty for real in the swimming pool scene.