User Reviews

This sequel to the first computer thriller gains by giving Henry Jay a truly scary opponent - Lee Montague's dead-eyed hit-man. He mows a remorseless path through a supporting cast including Terrence Rigby, Bob Peck and Michael Cashman and poor nerdy Henry seems woefully out of his depth. The conflict between the Jays' and the killer is handled as a perverse variation on the eternal triangle. Henry's wife witnesses Montague as he gasses Cashman to death - and he sees her. Henry realises he may lose his wife to "the other man" and makes a futile attempt to improve himself - wearing trendy new clothes and taking her back to the haunts of their youth. Ultimaely, he confronts his "rival" at the killer's home in Belgium - and is forced to flee. Henry is able to utilise his ability in computers to retrieve his passport from Roche's safe. At the climax, his wife and the killer are forced to a reckoning. She "dumps him" by scalding him with hot tea and knifing him to death over a montage of his many victims. The intriguing final scene suggests the now-penniless Jay's are about to try world-wide computer fraud. Griffith's made a nicely offbeat leading everyman, Carole Nimmons suggested a sensual wife repressed by her nerdy, school-boyish husband and Montague essayed a truly chilling monster in human form. One chilling scene stayed with me. He had earlier disposed of Bob Peck's corrupt Minister and has visited his wife to allay her fears and provide a cover story for her husband's absence. As he turns to exit, she starts to ask what may prove to be an awkward question. He starts to efficiently don black gloves in anticipation of eliminating her, only for the unwary woman to be mollified by his excuse - and unwittingly escape with her life.