White Sands

A suicide found in the desert with 500,000 dollars cash stuffed in a briefcase makes Sheriff Ray Dolezal (Willem Dafoe) curious. What was the dead man up to? Sensing that if he follows the money, he'll find crime at the end of the trail, Dolezal assumes his identity. He soon discovers the dead man ...more

White Sands manages to choke down just about all that it bites off. It's a movie with a complex plot rendered with uniform ease by ace suspense director Roger Donaldson, who did great work with Kevin Costner on No Way Out and Thirteen Days. It turns former bad guy Willem Dafoe into a capably conventional leading man, and it features Mickey Rourke in what is for him a restrained performance. It does all that, and a good deal more, with a clever device: it has Dafoe assuming the identity of a dead ...more