A good premise, a great cast and an excellent director (Barbet Schroeder) amount to very little in this dumb thriller that rapidly goes downhill. Andy Garcia stars as a policeman who needs the rare bone marrow of the very unhinged Michael Keaton in order to save his son. Initially an intriguing variant on The Silence of the Lambs, the movie develops into an implausible action thriller as the overacting Keaton runs amok in a hospital leaving Garcia with a dilemma. It's so idiotic at times that you wonder if anybody actually read the script before signing on.

San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital as the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most: freedom. With McCabe's escape, the entire hospital becomes a battleground and Connor must pursue and, ironically, protect the deadly fugitive who is his son's only hope for survival.