Nick of Time (1995)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Gene Watson	Johnny Depp	½
Lynn Watson	Courtney Chase	-
Huey	Charles S. Dutton	½
Mr. Smith	Christopher Walken
Ms. Jones	Roma Maffia	½
Governor Eleanor Grant	Marsha Mason	-
Brendan Grant	Peter Strauss	-
Krista Brooks	Gloria Reuben	-
Officer Trust	Bill Smitrovich	-
Mystery Man	G. D. Spradlin	-

Review

Classically structured and told thriller from John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, Stakeout), starring a sympathetic Johnny Depp and a routinely solid Christopher Walken. This is fast-paced, genre-based moviemaking, a film that aims medium high and hits close to the mark. With gritty aesthetics and familiar Hollywood mechanisms, Badham's goal here is 90 minutes of constant suspense in the form of a real-time race against the clock. It's cramped and rather silly, but the stream of events and sense of movement make it fairly effective nonetheless.