Amazon.co.uk Review Lurid thrillers don't get much more shameless than this movie, in which Robert De Niro plays a pathological baseball fan whose obsession is focused on a San Francisco Giants all-star outfielder (Wesley Snipes). While the newly signed baseball star is having trouble getting his favourite uniform number from a competitive teammate (Benicio Del Toro), De Niro is having career troubles at the knife company his father founded, and you can bet that his proximity to high-quality stainless-steel blades will be a factor in the suspenseful plot. Recycling parts of his maniacal roles in Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy and Cape Fear, De Niro takes his idolatry to violent extremes, eliminating any obstacle to Snipes' stardom until the baseball hero is forced to confront his most terrifying devotee. Directed with brutal excess and souped-up style by Tony Scott (Top Gun, Crimson Tide), this manipulative nail-biter pulls all the right strings in predictable fashion, but it does have moments that are effectively intense. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com Product Description Gil Renard (Robert De Niro) is a failed knife salesman and San Francisco Giants fanatic, whose wife has put a restraining order on him after he abandoned his son at a match. He becomes obsessed with new player Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes) and when Rayburn has a streak of bad luck, Gil goes over the edge and will stop at nothing to restore his idol's reputation.