With its continuously recyclable title, all-too familiar plot points, glossy casting and vaguely attenuated realities involving drug addiction and the economically disenfranchised, it’s a disappointingly pedantic offering from the once formidable Noyce. What they have in common is they were all Above Suspicion, a title shared by the latest film from Hollywood studio expat Phillip Noyce, based on Joe Sharkey’s 2017 true crime novel about an undercover FBI agent who engaged in a sexual affair and then murdered his informant in 1988 Kentucky. And then Lynda La Plante’s short lived 2009 series featured Kelly Reilly as a tenacious Detective Constable. Annabella Sciorra suspected husband Scott Bakula of nefarious wrong doings in 2000. Christopher Reeve played a paralyzed cop (shortly before his actual paralysis) using his condition to hide his motive for wanting to kill his adulterous spouse Kim Cattrall in 1995. In 1943, Joan Crawford and John Wayne fought the Nazis. Investigation of a Citizen: Noyce Can’t Get in Formation with True Crime Chronicle
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