Just the Ticket

First on the list of Slater-ed Releases,  FROM May 21, 2005 (SW@ Ticket #39: Is WWE Worth the Pursuit?),  I turn to Pursued , a fairly recent look at the world of headhunting with Christian Slater. His voice retaining that quality of comic commentary he made famous in Kuffs , but retaining it in a suspense setting nonetheless, Slater plays a corporate recruiter who literally wants your head if you won't be bought. Thus, he always gets his man. A truly good man comes along and Slater finds his job a bit more difficult. As he must intrude on the man's life and privacy and threaten his family, Slater's headhunter gets the surveilance tables turned on him and winds up in a typical suspense-closing, life-ending gunfight/fistfight with his victim. Slater's character and actions have cookie-cutter psycho stalker written all over, and the ending takes a bit more examination and thought than a made-for-TV corporate suspense picture should require, but the concept was sort of o