Review – Copycat

Copycat is just about right. All of this profilers-versus-serial-killers crap was done to the extent necessary and then some by Thomas Harris and Jonathan Demme. Maybe I’m just getting old or something, but the whole two-hours-of-tortured-women is really starting to wear a little thin. There’s one solid chill in this film, an odd bit of computer-borne video in which a neo-flower-child turns into a spooky skeleton. Other than that, however, this is a lot of emoting by Sigourney Weaver, Harry Connick Jr. and Holly Hunter and not a lot of anything else. Serial killer lore enthusiasts will also find the seemingly endless game of trivial pursuit more than a little tedious. See if desperate