Eve Preston is an aspiring television reporter appearing on KQAP News at Five in Philadelphia. Eve's forte is the sleazy journalism that examines human interest stories while ridiculing her subjects. "Reverse Angle" is Eve's awakening to a new kind of social consciousness in her reporting.

The filmmakers were successful in developing a tongue-in-cheek approach to a serious subject. After all, the murder of the decent MIT inventor Ned Larfield, who discovered a way to harness solar energy, was a sad loss for the planet. Eve's temporary amnesia has blocked in her mind the interview she conducted with Larfield at his retreat on Glen Pebble Road. The film footage appears to be lost, and Eve was subsequently run off the road and left for dead by two men in suits.

The scene stealer in the show is the actor playing "Doctor" Harry Briggs, psychologist. After having been satirized by Eve in one of her exposés, Harry comes to her rescue and helps her to recover her memory. The duo then do battle with the corporate forces of evil. Harry serves in the major transformation of Eve from a purveyor of yellow journalism to one of stature in investigative reporting.

The strength of the film was in the clever dialogue, especially the repartee between Eve and Harry. There was a nice touch at the end with young Janie recovering Ned's application for a patent that may include the template for his invention of a self-sustaining motor vehicle. With assistance from the "new" kind of reporting of Eve, there may be hope for humanity!

Intriguing premise; a reporter escapes an attempt on her life, but suffers temporary amnesia and doesn't know why she's a target but, not well done. If this film was made today the basic McGuffin, concern about global warming, would carry more weight, as would the conspiracy to remove one of the guys with a solution. The reporter's loss of memory and the behaviour of the hit men would also be more convincingly portrayed. As it is we get a cheap, slow and rather unrealistic story in which a drop-out professor invents a solar-cell paint. A big, anonymous oil company feeling threatened sends two hoods to silence him, but not before tabloid tv reporter Eve has interviewed the academic, putting herself and the cameraman in line for silencing. Their car is run off the road and Eve wakes up with no memory of what has happened. This is where it starts to get unbelievable. She appears to retain most of her cognitive functions and awareness, finding her way to a lecture being given by fake motivational speaker Harry Griggs whom she had ridiculed in a report. Unfortunately the hit men turn up at the same location and start blasting away at Eve and Harry on the car park. Although a lobby full of people fail to notice anything! So they head off to the police right? No, the film's only 20 minutes in! Instead they go to a bar where she calmly and rationally explains to Harry about her memory loss. He finally tells her who she is and where she works. So then they go to the TV studio to talk to staff and find out what her assignment was - yes? Wrong again. They wait until the studio is closed and sneak in to check her PC. They then go to her house where the gunmen again turn up and start shooting up the quiet neighbourhood which is obviously populated entirely by deaf people! They escape again and Eve gradually starts remembering bits and pieces. Oh, and it turns out that the camerman survived the crash and has been explaining everything to the police. When will you learn? He has of course been holed up in a motel scared stiff. Finally they all make contact on yet another car park just as the assassins arrive. Only this time the police also materialize although it is not clear who exactly summoned them! Like I say, it has all the elements of a very good chase movie. It's just too hard to swallow

I'm not sure about the low scores for this movie. I found it refreshing on a hot summer night. Something light and different.