Rating: R
Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 08/14/2001
Sound: DS
Run Time: 105 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Republic Pictures
This murder
mystery from director
Carl Schenkel stars
Christopher Lambert (
Highlander) as
Peter Sanderson, an expert chess champion. When a woman
Sanderson has recently slept with is among several women brutally murdered at a chess tournament, he becomes a suspect. But when the murderer contacts
Sanderson and informs him that he's set up a maniacal human chess game, he realizes that he'll have to beat the murderer to stop the killings and clear his own name.
Diane Lane plays a psychologist who falls for
Sanderson, and
Tom Skerritt is the local sheriff investigating the case.
Knight Moves won the Critics Award at the
1992 Cognac Film Festival.
~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide