I’m awarding this a perfect score, even though my wife didn’t care for it—she enjoyed Hard Rain, so this feels like a reaction against that. Still, it isn't terrible. Considering everything, and with Tom Sizemore delivering a notably strong performance, he really stands out as the best part of the movie. It's not often you come across police thrillers centered on officers working boats. Plus, Sarah Jessica Parker …

Rowdy Herrington wrote and directed the 1993 film “Striking Distance,” a comic book style crime story set in Pittsburgh and starring Bruce Willis and Sarah Jessica Parker. Willis plays Tom Hardy, a detective who’s been moved to river rescue duty, while Parker portrays Jo Christman, his partner on the water. The movie has a less than stellar reputation; Roger Ebert criticized it as unoriginal and formulaic, and eve…