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| TriStar Pictures | Release Date: September 21, 1990 |
Starring:
Anne Archer, B.A. 'Smitty' Smith, Codie Lucas Wilbee, Gene Hackman, J.A. Preston, J.T. Walsh, James Sikking, M. Emmet Walsh, Nigel Bennett, Susan Hogan
Summary:
A Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney is sent to protect a woman who accidentally witnessed a Mafia murder.
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Narrow Margin cares more about characters than pyrotechnics or double-digit body counts. Its emphasis is on relationships, dramatic situations and settings, and how these combine to create a deeply satisfying yarn. [21 Sep 1990, p.6]
Considering that Margin is a familiar and predictable story, with options severely limited, it's a good, suspenseful adventure. [01 Oct 1990, p.D05]
Narrow Margin has a couple of moments of unabashed hokeyness and some predictable turns of plot, but considering that it's designed to do nothing more than provide escapist fare for 97 minutes, and that there are a dozen surprise twists, it hardly seems to matter. Like a train ride itself, you get into the swaying swing of things, and to hell with credibility. [21 Sep 1990, p.E3]
Narrow Margin is a clumsy version of the Idiot Plot, dressed up as a high-gloss chase thriller. The Idiot Plot, of course, is any plot that would be resolved in five minutes if everyone in the story were not an idiot. And rarely has there been a film in which more idiots make more mistakes than in this one.
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