Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1987 in VHS
• Released on: 1999-06-08
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Customer Reviews

A second chance
A serial killer is apparently reborn, when lightning strikes as he is being electrocuted. He awakens with no memory of his crimes, and the gift of foreseeing. Is it for real? Or is it just the act of a brilliant, twisted mind, trying to stave off a rematch with the Chair? Randy Quaid will keep you guessing untill the final credits in this suspenseful drama.

There is more plot here than meets the eye...
Isn't it true that we can choose to use our greatest gifts for good or evil? In this movie, a man is given a second chance to use his gifts for good. Perhaps this can be a lesson about how we should look at the murderers in our society and help them to learn how to use their gifts to save lives. Another thought-provoking movie about a man who finds truth stars Anthony Hopkins in "Instinct".

glad i caught it on Lifetime last night
I stayed up until 2 AM so I could finish watching Last Rites, a pretty good cabler starring Randy Quaid and Embeth Davidtz. The movie stars Quaid as Jeremy Dillon, a serial killer who is shown in the beginning preparing for his execution. He's strapped to the chair and the electricity is on when all of a sudden lightning strikes the chair, leaving him alive but with "amnesia." A psychologist is brought in to evaluate him and pretty soon she begins to believe that he's changed, especially when he begins to have psychic powers that help the FBI in many ways.

Throughout this movie, I was wondering if Dillon's change of heart was real or a ploy to save himself. I thought Quaid did some of his best work to date portraying Dillon first as a cold blooded psychopath and then as someone repulsed by his crimes. Davidtz also was very good as the one woman who cares about him.
The ending was a surprise and actually was the best one they could have had. I would recommend this movie to anyone looking for a decent thriller that doesn't rely on gore. You can probably find it at Hollywood Video or Blockbuster.