synopsis : the president of a company wants to test his self-appointed successor , who's psychotic , and thinks it's a great idea to spend a week with him and their wives in an isolated cabin a hundred miles from civilization with no dependable transportation or means of communication after a heavy snowfall . comments : tracks of a killer had a couple of strikes against it before i even began watching it . strike one was the fact that <NEG> someone had scrawled the word garbage on the videotape's sticker in black marker </NEG> ( not typically a good sign when you rent a film ) . strike two came while the previews played . did you ever get a sinking premonition about a movie's quality ( or lack thereof ) while watching the trailers that come before it ? well , <NEG> the cheesy films being advertised </NEG> before tracks of a killer were films that no one has ever heard of starring people no one knows , and <NEG> they all looked bad </NEG> ( definately not a good sign ) . tracks of a killer itself <NEG> completed the strikeout </NEG> . about the only positive thing this film had going for it was the fact that it sports some nice scenery . to be fair , the first half-hour or so promises at least a watchable thriller . wolf larson , who bears more than a passing resemblance to hugh grant , adequately plays the underling obviously set up as the killer of the film's title . james brolin and kelly lebrock seem equally adequate as the loving couple larson will later threaten . brolin's character , <NEG> for some inexplicable reason </NEG> , thinks its a great idea to spend some time in a cabin , practically isolated , with lebrock and larson , whom he's decided to test for the week before giving him full control of his company . by the time the characters arrive at the cabin , this film <NEG> begins to become tedious </NEG> . apparently , brolin's successor's test involves chopping wood for the fireplace and skiing , which don't seem like attributes necessary to run a business in the city . but , then again , what do i know about business ? i do think , though , that they should have invested in some better furniture for the cabin ; its beds and closets have a habit of just breaking at the slightest touch . larson's character accidently kills his own wife rather than the couple he wants to kill . this leaves the movie with an hour to go and only three characters , <NEG> which really isn't enough to sustain it </NEG> . the film's writer must have taken a cue from stephen king , as scenes from tracks of a killer seem lifted out of misery and gerald's game . larson and lebrock fight and torture each other ( the tables get turned a couple of times ) while brolin tramps around in the snow looking for help . some old guy's around too , just so the killer can add to his body count without killing the couple , who everyone knows will be alive at the end of the film . the old guy , however , miraculously survives his first death and appears later to be killed again by the killer in a scene <NEG> so ludicrous it's worthy of a chuckle or two </NEG> . outside of that chuckle , unfortunately , tracks of a killer <NEG> will just bore you as the obvious plot is drawn out ad infinitum </NEG> and the actors , for some reason , become <NEG> increasing obnoxious </NEG> . if you're in a video store and thinking about renting this <NEG> turkey </NEG> , don't . make tracks to a far superior suspense film , like misery .
