YMMV / Striking Distance

• Complete Monster: Jimmy Detillo is accused of excessive force on a suspect by the heroic honest cop Tom Hardy. Jimmy seemingly kills himself, but it is revealed that he fakes his death to cover up the fact that he was the Serial Killer dubbed "The Polish Hill Strangler," who has been murdering young women by throttling them with a rope. To get revenge on Hardy, Detillo begins murdering any woman he's had a relationship with in the past and does his best to frame Hardy for the murder. At the end, Jimmy kidnaps Tom, his current girlfriend and his own brother Danny with intent to murder them all. When Jimmy's father, Nick, interferes and tries to stop Jimmy, Jimmy guns him down without a second thought before trying to kill the others again.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Jimmy Detillo was played by the late Robert Pastorelli, who died in 2004 from a drug overdose — amidst suspicions by law enforcement that he'd killed his girlfriend, Charemon Jonovich.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Bruce Willis plays a character named Tom Hardy in this film. Seventeen years later, actor Tom Hardy would shoot the film Warrior in Pittsburgh (where this takes place).
  • The trailer calls the character "Thomas Hardy", creating a parallel with the famous Romantic poet.
• Nightmare Fuel: Paula's abduction. From the minute she leaves work when she gets the creepy sensation someone's watching/following her, right until she's attacked as she tries to get into her car. It's already a frightening scene, but the fact that literally every woman who's ever left her job/home late at night has experienced the same apprehension makes it even more so.
• Tear Jerker: Tom's reaction to his father's death, Jimmy' s suicide, and Kim Lee's murder can evoke this.

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