After a long dry spell that saw him reduced to making at least one straight-to-video kids' film, Jon Voight's career enjoyed a healthy resurgence in the mid-'90s. High-profile supporting parts in films like Heat, Mission Impossible, The Rainmaker, and Anaconda helped matters, so the fact that The Fixer finds Voight appearing in a shoddy, by-the-numbers gangster film is a real shame. Voight unblinkingly stares his way through the role of Chicago's top mob lawyer, a man whose job has always been to make sure the mob gets its way. But when they want him to "fix" a murder, well, apparently that's just going too far: He decides to expose them, turn good, and be a proper example to his son. There's a problem, of course; although it's not exactly clear what's happening, the mob is apparently against the idea of having Voight expose its crimes. There are some beatings. Family is threatened. A horse is damaged. A priest is killed. Voight, jowly to begin with, is put in a neck brace, which makes him look like an intense, unblinking sack of apples. While he may still be a good actor—and, make no mistake, he can still exude a vaguely creepy intensity just by standing there—The Fixer doesn't give Voight anything worthwhile to do, so he overdoes his just-standing-there bit. The complete Voight filmography is hardly a must-see to begin with, but this awful little thing may just be the most unnecessary direct-to-video movie of the year.