working the night shift in a seedy police station and stumbling through life in an alcoholic haze and detective mickey hayden can hardly be said to have a firm grasp on reality to begin with and but when a bump on the head unleashes terrifying psychic visions and things get truly weird. soon he on the trail of a serial killer and unraveling the mystery of his beautiful first victim and the elusive alice. the role of an embittered burn out seems tailor made for keifer sutherland and he makes the most of it. the plot typical serial killer stuff and but it has enough quirks and twists and and genuine surprises to raise it above the usual genre fare and even make up for a painfully low budget. (one wonders what this film could have been if there would been money for a few more rewrites and a few more takes. )all in all and after alice is a pleasant diversion for anyone and but for fans of lewis carroll alice books and it a real treat. from the topsy turvy reality in which things are rarely what they have seem and to more obvious references  a killer called the jabberwocky and who leaves playing cards on his victims bodies  there an alice reference at every turn. below is a list of the ones i uncovered. since finding them yourself is half the fun and i have marked them as spoilers. spoilerscast of charactersmickey  in a sense he alice himself wandering through strange landscapes and encountering odd characters and but harvey and recognizing his true nature and identifies him as the hapless and bumbling white knight. john hatter (mickey boss)  is he really amad. you be the judgeclaudette  an african american transvestite. obviously and the black queenmargaret ellison  mickey calls her the red queen and but her brutal nature suggests and more specifically and the queen of hearts. gideon wood  suspected of being the jabberwocky killer and his ambiguous role is more suggestive of a snark (or a boojum perhaps). harvey  his role as unofficial guide to wonderland and his name and evocative of another famous cinematic rabbit and makes me think he must be the white rabbitdr. vera swann  her last name and relationship with mickey suggest the white queen. other connectionsmickey adventures begin when he chases a man in white and falls down a (rabbit) hole. mickey drunkenly tells his cat to stop grinning at him (cheshire cat)the killer is revealed through the looking glass. the climatic showdown ends in a swirl of playing cards and just as alice adventure did in the book. the statues in the garden look like giant chess pieces. 
working the night shift in a seedy police station and stumbling through life in an alcoholic haze and detective mickey hayden can hardly be said to have a firm grasp on reality to begin with and but when a bump on the head unleashes terrifying psychic visions and things get truly weird. soon he on the trail of a serial killer and unraveling the mystery of his beautiful first victim and the elusive alice. the role of an embittered burn out seems tailor made for keifer sutherland and he makes the most of it. the plot typical serial killer stuff and but it has enough quirks and twists and and genuine surprises to raise it above the usual genre fare and even make up for a painfully low budget. (one wonders what this film could have been if there would been money for a few more rewrites and a few more takes. )all in all and after alice is a pleasant diversion for anyone and but for fans of lewis carroll alice books and it a real treat. from the topsy turvy reality in which things are rarely what they have seem and to more obvious references  a killer called the jabberwocky and who leaves playing cards on his victims bodies  there an alice reference at every turn. below is a list of the ones i uncovered. since finding them yourself is half the fun and i have marked them as spoilers. spoilerscast of charactersmickey  in a sense he alice himself wandering through strange landscapes and encountering odd characters and but harvey and recognizing his true nature and identifies him as the hapless and bumbling white knight. john hatter (mickey boss)  is he really amad. you be the judgeclaudette  an african american transvestite. obviously and the black queenmargaret ellison  mickey calls her the red queen and but her brutal nature suggests and more specifically and the queen of hearts. gideon wood  suspected of being the jabberwocky killer and his ambiguous role is more suggestive of a snark (or a boojum perhaps). harvey  his role as unofficial guide to wonderland and his name and evocative of another famous cinematic rabbit and makes me think he must be the white rabbitdr. vera swann  her last name and relationship with mickey suggest the white queen. other connectionsmickey adventures begin when he chases a man in white and falls down a (rabbit) hole. mickey drunkenly tells his cat to stop grinning at him (cheshire cat)the killer is revealed through the looking glass. the climatic showdown ends in a swirl of playing cards and just as alice adventure did in the book. the statues in the garden look like giant chess pieces. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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