Someone please stop me from watching these. Someone, help!
I love it, to be clear. I thought about writing a review for the Cuba Gooding Jr movie Murder of Crows, then opted not to. Then I watched Jennifer 8 which was another serial killer investigate-y movie and thought, surely these two could share a mini review.
A Murder of Crows had Cuba Gooding Jr only a few years after his Oscar for Jerry Maguire, and boy had the man taken a significant down grade in movie quality. Two years later he's starring with Tom Berenger in a sub par murder mystery movie. Yikes!
Cuba is a lawyer who grows a conscience and loses the job, only to be left dry of opportunity when he meets an old man who gives him a book he's written. The book is titled A Murder of Crows, and is about a series of lawyer murders. Old man dies, Cuba published book, turns out book is based on reality, and now Cuba is framed as the suspect, and is on the run to find the real killer.
Jennifer 8 stars Andy Garcia as a investigator who is on the case when a hand is found at a local garbage dump. He is sent to interview a possible witness, a blind woman played by Uma Thurman in an early role, and they begin to form a romantic attraction while the case obviously has more bodies turn up and intrigue build.
The things these both have in common is the tropes they follow. The cop falling for the witness is an obvious trope, and the main character framed for the murders is the other. They also both have elaborate genius level games the killer follows, and both involve a twist, both involve the killer going after someone close to the main character....I mean damn, they're very much "follow the formula" movies.
Jennifer 8 is better but slower, Murder of Crows is just downright bad. I give Murder a 1 and Jennifer a 2.5.
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