Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 12, 2005 | | Summary | How much money was wasted making this? | Content
 | This movie is terrible, all the more given the talent involved. Andy Garcia, Samuel L. Jackson and Ashley Judd all give awful performances which can't really be helped given the horrible dialog they are given to say and the stupid things they are given to do. The plot is Ashley Judd plays an alcoholic cop who sleeps with men she picks up at the local bars. The men she's been with start turning up dead and she is logically the main suspect. In the end it doesn't matter what the movie is about because it's all done so badly. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 03, 2005 | | Summary | Kissing the Double Jeopardy Girls is a High Crime | Content
| This really should have been something, considering the talent involved. Instead, it becomes an overly predictable mess.
Ashley Judd plays an alcoholic cop who has late night flings with a string of random men. Her problems arise when each one of the guys she sleeps with gets killed off. She decides to discover who the killer is on her own, since she happens to be the prime suspect.
The problem with this story, which sounds good in summation, is the fact that the actors confusingly play the movie a little too knowingly and the entire story becomes predictable, leaving no room for suspense or surprise. You know exactly what's going to happen and who the killer is within the first 20 minutes that the characters are introduced. With Sam Jackson, Judd, and Andy Garcia, this should have been TONS better. Avoid this and go for a better Judd thriller like 'High Crimes'. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 11, 2005 | | Summary | Dumb | Content
| Yea! How realistic is this? A female cop who f*#%s everyone from her local bar, then a killer starts killing everyone she slept with. If this isn't the heart of ReTaRdAtIoN, I don't know what is. Besides the idiotic plot, you (at least I) knew who the killer was the moment the film started. Here is a Hint: when you throw a big actor in a stupid plot, and it looks like they have a cheesy, low profile roll, than they are the killer. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 27, 2005 | | Summary | I Don't Care What People Say! | Content
| Twisted was an excellent film. Yeah it's missing alot, the biggest thing would be action. It has very little action if any, it's more of a guessing game the entire time. However, the story, the acting, and the director seemed to deliver us thriller fans, exactly what we wanted.
Ashley Judd(Kiss the Girls,Double Jeopardy) yet again gives one excellent thriller. It's not as slashy as her other films could be, but it definitely keeps you in mystery. Samual L Jackson(S.W.A.T.,Shaft) plays another great detective, who was a huge addition to this movie more than I thought he'd be. Andy Garcia(The Untouchables,Desperate measures) also plays another great detective, who still has his great suspenseful acting. What can go wrong with these actors? seriously.
We usaully blame directors for what goes wrong in movies. This time I know the director was right, and the fans just were picky when this came out. The plot of a detective(Judd), finding dead bodies of guys she all had one night stands with. It's all perfectly filmed, especially the amazing twist in the end that even I didn't see coming.
If you haven't seen this, I recommend that you should. This was a great thriller for the year 2004. Better than "Taking Lives"(Angelina Jolie), better than "Saw"(Cary Elwes)... thrillers also released in 2004. Thank you. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 16, 2005 | | Summary | Why This Book Does Not Make a Good Movie. | Content
| First of all, read the original novel Hoochie Mama, by Preston L. Allen, if you want to see how this story should have looked on film.
I watched this movie because I like thrillers, but it has problems. There are a few elements that do not fit, like the psycho with the knife who begins the movie. What's he in it for? What is his place in all of this? I like Andy Garcia, but his character displays emotions that seem . . . overdone. I am never sure what all of the emotion is about with him. Finally, Samuel L. Jackson does not fool us as the ultimate bad guy revealed at the end. We read him right away. This movie reminds me of a pretty good novel, Hoochie Mama, written by author Preston L. Allen. The exact same elements show up in the movie and the book--in fact, you might think the movie is based on the book they are so similar. In the book, the inspector (Samuel L. Jackson) is white and he is called "the captain." The Andy Garcia hispanic sidekick character is named Sosa. The female cop hero, in the book, is named M Gantry, and she is black--she knows karate, wears black, and has her hair cut short just like the Ashley Judd character in the movie. The thing about the book that works so well is that the psycho with the knife makes sense in the book. All of the psychos in the book make sense, but not in the movie. I think maybe they were trying to do a screenplay of Allen's book, but they changed so many things that it did not make sense on film. |
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