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Rated: Unrated; Genres: Crime, Drama; With: Michael Biehn and Paul Winfield
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IN THE KINGDOM OF THE BLIND, THE MAN WITH ONE EYE IS KING Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield (1995, Arrow, unrated, priced for rental) If you think that title is trite and unwieldy, you should hear the soliloquy Mob op Biehn delivers before crucifying -- yes, crucifying -- his victim in the movie's opening scene. In this sub-Dostoyevskian take on underworld intrigue, a cop (chunky writer-director Nick Vallelonga) confronts the brother he sent up the river years before. When not pondering Big Issues like Betrayal and Salvation, Kingdom serves up the usual B-movie felicities; one has Vallelonga telling his wife (Kristian Alfonso), ''You...are just gonna have to learn...to share me...with the Paramus Police Department.'' Paramus? No wonder he got fat -- his beat must include all the diners on Route 17. C-


Posted Oct 27, 1995
 

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