Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard (1st ed. 1987).
A young man has the power to heal through his touch. He becomes the target of public attention and is coveted on the one side by some money-hungry people and on the other by a religious fanatic.
It has some marginal entertaining qualities and top-notch cinematography and camerawork, but it is not particularly funny; its points of satire are either painly obvious (people are greedy) or find no resonance in my personal concerns (there is no room for the sacred in contemporary society). What ruins the movie, though, is the bland, indecisive tone, an intermediary between caricature and earnest drama. Arnold's performance is pretty marvelous, in any case.
Rating: 35
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