Impulse

"I didn't know what I was doing there..."
The alluring Theresa Russell has made a healthy film career out of playing prostitutes (one of her films was actually titled WHORE). In IMPULSE, also starring Jeff Fahey, Russell plays Lottie, an undercover cop who most often poses as---you guessed it---a prostitute.

Russell is hot onscreen, so hot the screen melts, even when she plays it straight. As an actress, she has a lock on the confused inner motivations of good girls gone bad or bad girls trying to be good, and it's hard to take your eyes off of her, not at least partially because she's engaging and imbues her emotionally conflicted characters with both depth and pathos.

Lottie poses as the hook in a major drug bust being managed by FBI agent Fahey who promptly falls into bed and in love with her. Lottie reacts typically---although she disdains this "nice guy," she yearns toward him as well.

Lottie's career is on the skids. In counseling and under Internal Affairs scrutiny, after a particularly...

Involving drama
I haven't seen this one for awhile, but it should be released on DVD, in my opinion. I have always enjoyed the performances of Jeff Fahey and Theresa Russell, separately, in their own respective careers, but in "Impulse" they are dynamite together. They have palpable chemistry that makes the film work. Their sex scene when they first get together was very hot, and very real. Good plot, good directing by Sondra Locke, good acting by Fahey, Russell, and a capable supporting cast. Good cop drama, that needs to be released on DVD!

Sondra Locke directorial triumph
Finally released. Wonderful directorial triumph. Rarely have the mean streets and scary nights looked so beautiful, so reflective of what's going on in the character's experience. The action and love story are beautifully paced. And Teresa Russell has never been more vulnerably explosive--directed to a wonderfully nuanced performance.

Click to Editorial Reviews