The first two-thirds of "Angel Eyes" leaves the viewer a little confused, trying to figure out just what is going on.
The story in a nutshell has a dazed man "Catch" Lambert (Jim Caziezel) wandering around the streets of Chicago seemingly running away from his past. He happens upon Officer Sharon Pogue (Jennifer Lopez) to whom he is mysteriously attracted. He tries to start up a relationship with her but keeps walking away. He lives in a barren apartment and his only friend is a wheelchair bound woman (Shirley Knight) for whom he buys groceries each week.
Officer Pogue on the other hand, is having her own problems. Her brother (Jeremy Sisto) is beating his wife (Monet Mazur), she hasn't spoken to her father (Victor Argo) in years and has trouble communicating with her mother (Sonia Braga). As her relationship with Lambert develops he begins to face his past while Sharon tries to patch things up with her family.
At the beginning, I thought we were going to have a police drama, but as the story moved along it turned out to be a pretty absorbing drama. The acting is good all around although it's hard to imagine J-Lo as a hard nosed cop and even harder to accept her beer drinking and cussing as "one of the boys".
The story in a nutshell has a dazed man "Catch" Lambert (Jim Caziezel) wandering around the streets of Chicago seemingly running away from his past. He happens upon Officer Sharon Pogue (Jennifer Lopez) to whom he is mysteriously attracted. He tries to start up a relationship with her but keeps walking away. He lives in a barren apartment and his only friend is a wheelchair bound woman (Shirley Knight) for whom he buys groceries each week.
Officer Pogue on the other hand, is having her own problems. Her brother (Jeremy Sisto) is beating his wife (Monet Mazur), she hasn't spoken to her father (Victor Argo) in years and has trouble communicating with her mother (Sonia Braga). As her relationship with Lambert develops he begins to face his past while Sharon tries to patch things up with her family.
At the beginning, I thought we were going to have a police drama, but as the story moved along it turned out to be a pretty absorbing drama. The acting is good all around although it's hard to imagine J-Lo as a hard nosed cop and even harder to accept her beer drinking and cussing as "one of the boys".