This movie is about a couple who suffers a dramatic breakin by a typical thief and when they call the police, right away one of the police officers of the two, seems a little too nice and too good to be true. He offers advice and offers the couple (kurt russell and madeline stowe) a top of the line security company for installation for their house. This cop (Liotta) soon becomes even more obsessed with Mrs. Carr (Stowe) and just can't help but show his interest in her. He catches the thief (who broke into their house and put a knife to her throat before bolting,) and Liotta displays a rodney king type brutality to impress Mr. Carr, and basically gives him permission to beat him up. After seeing the look in liotta's eyes after assaulting the thief, he doesn't want anything to do with him. Of course he realizes how hard it is to get rid of him. He starts stalking the couple, first harassment then ripping off their credit cards, messing with computers at the PD so that Mr. Carr is forced to pay unpaid phony parking tickets, and messing up Mr. Carr's business connections. It's an intense thriller about a loose cannon sociopathic cop who ends up going way too far with his obsession and fantasies about a life with a beautiful married woman he will never have.

This is one of those movies you hardly ever think of, but when you do it blows you away of how good it is. The action here tends to be alittle slow, but in everything else it explodes like the killer/stalker cop played by Ray Liotta(Goodfellas/Something Wild). The story to this movie is perfectly shown. How a husband(Kurt Russell), will do anything to protect his wife from the so-called cop friend.
Kurt Russell(Executive Decision/Big trouble in Little China) like the hero he always is, again delivers a performance that's highly believable and well entertaining. Ray Liotta does play a well thought up bone chilling villian and if he hadn't been in Goodfellas, this would be his best film. After watching him in this, you really ask yourself are you safe? Madeleine Stowe(General's Daughter/Stake Out) definitely had her best film here delivering the suspense she does, as Kurt Russell's wife.
Jonathan Kaplan the director(Project X/Brokedown Palace), has done some extroadianry films. However this is his best film, it's full of suspenseful scenes showing police brutality, and how a stalker works. It's little humor is given by all the actors, forming a powerful plot.
If you haven't seen this then you don't love movies. This movie is truly a rare gem and will be one of your favorites that you'll never forget.

glad I saw this

3 words

scary, shocking, powerful story/movie

see this one
it will amaze you from start to end
and go to show you what happens when you get away with too much and think you'll have no repercussions. many lessons were learned from watching this movie. I really enjoy it more and more every time I view it on my player for dvds.

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy? What do you do when the one who's supposed to protect you turns into a raging psychopath? That's the question presented in this thriller where Kurt Russell and Madeline Stowe play a married couple stalked by a police officer (Ray Liotta).

A burglar breaks into their house one night, and they call the cops. Two helpful policemen show up and offer advice about a security system, which is then installed, but one cop doesn't seem to know when to quit. And he seems to be a little too fixated on the wife's, um...safety.

This is one of those thrillers where the seemingly normal newcomer turns out to be seriously disturbed. It worked before in 'Single White Female' and 'Fatal Attraction', and it works here as well. Ray Liotta is effectively creepy as the stalking cop, who's nice one second and deadly the next. One of the creepiest and oddly unsettling scenes is when Liotta catches the burglar, and holds him for Russell to beat the crap out of him. When he refuses, Liotta does it himself, then makes up a story about how the burglar was resisting arrest. Madeline Stowe is perfect and utterly gorgeous as the cop's obsession, and Kurt Russell plays his everyman character very well. Worth a watch for suspense fans.

I love this movie. It has action, drama and suspense. A real nail biter to say the least. However the main reason to see this film is because of Ray Liotta. The man is fantastic in his role as a cop turned psychotic. He is a brilliant actor and although Kurt Russell is just O.K. Madeline Stowe adds beauty and sex appeal to the movie. If you haven't seen this movie yet, I suggest that you do and see for yourself how wonderful Ray Liotta is in this role. A great actor who is highly underrated.