V.I. Warshawski

Kathleen Turner is perfectly cast as the sexy, energetic female private detective V.I. Warshawski, who has learnt that it is smartest to use her initials in the tough man's world she finds herself in.

V.I. is also something of a man-eater, even though her relationship with the journalist Murray can almost be described as steady. After a row with Murray, she finds a new guy in town, the former baseball star Boom-Boom, but shortly afterwards he dies in a mysterious explosion. V.I. has to acknowledge that she is now not just babysitter for an evening to Boom-Boom's teenage daughter Kat, for Kat does not want to go home to her mother, who has married one of Boom-Boom's brothers. Kat persuades V.I. to investigate what she believes is the murder of her father.

Turner is quick-tongued and punchy in the film, whose screenplay is rather ordinary. The dialogue alternates between the witty and the unimaginative. All in all, the detective film is not worth a trip to the cinema. While Turner is a refreshing heroine, her companion Kat is far too irritating for you to feel any sympathy for her.