A major plot twist, one not in the novel, occurs, and all of the film’s suspense sputters out like a balloon losing air.

Director Arthur Ripley... turns Havana into network of underworld operatives just waiting to send the next unwitting victim into a web of terror.

Not so ingenious and engaging as other, Chandler-esque convolutions.

A last-act plot twist, equally likely to alienate as to fascinate, makes Arthur Ripley's obscure The Chase an especially bizarre jaunt through a nightmarish crime world.