Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
Ricochet is a competent early-90s thriller elevated by John Lithgow's unhinged villain performance, which gives the film more energy than its fairly conventional revenge/obsession premise deserves. Denzel Washington holds the lead well, but the script leans heavily on formulaic cat-and-mouse beats and contrivances. Cinematography is workmanlike and unremarkable for the era. The premise of a psychopathic criminal systematically dismantling a DA's life had been done before and the execution doesn't reinvent it. The ending delivers adequate payoff without being especially memorable.