“Respite” (** out of four) was a lukewarm thriller about a down-on-his-luck private investigator (Monte Bezell) who is hired by a family to find their missing child but when various dead bodies start turning up all over the city- he soon realizes their child may have been abducted and/or killed by a serial killer that he has to pursue. Holds your attention with its gritty subject matter and competent filmmaking and acting but never really takes off or shifts into high-gear as it should. A film one can easily watch but easily also forget, since we’ve been down this serial-killer road all-too-many times over the years.