CUTTER'S WAY (1981) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Ivan Passer
Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn,
Ann Dusenberry, Arthur Rosenberg,
Stephen Elliott, Nina van Pallandt
A sail-boating golden boy, a damaged Vietnam vet and the sister of a girl who's been murdered try to pull off a blackmail scheme that can only go badly in a sinister thriller that vaguely echoes "Chinatown". Whatever you've seen John Heard do, he never did anything else like this. He's the shambling ghost of the Vietnam War, a demented avenging angel, and apocalyptically pissed off. The ending's as perfect as it is abrupt, and it's mighty abrupt. Original title: "Cutter and Bone".
