| In the Cut | | Cast : | Jennifer Jason Leigh, Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo | | Director : | Jane Campion | | Studio : | Columbia Tristar Hom | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | October 31, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | September 13, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | Unrated | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 06, 2005 | | Summary | IN THE WHAT! | Content
 | In the toilet, that's where (...) belongs! This movie is,
soooooooooooooooooo boring!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 09, 2005 | | Summary | See It for Ruffalo | Content
| There ought to be a special Academy Award for movies that feature full frontal nudity, graphic sex, dismembered bodies being pulled out of washing machines, strippers pole dancing, a scene where a man chops up a woman with an ice skate, and yet still manage to be completely boring.
There also ought to be a special Academy Award for movies whose cast and crew include very talented people who, between them, have amassed a string of hits, and yet are still second rate, at best.
Here's another potential category - - movies that are produced, directed by, and star members of underserved groups, African Americans or women, maybe, and yet still manage to present dismal depictions of African Americans or women.
Had there been such an Academy Awards, "In the Cut" may have taken all three awards in 2003.
"In the Cut" wants to be a newer, bolder "Klute," instead, it's an exercise in headscratching.
Why did Jane Campion, maker of woman-friendly "The Piano," make a movie where the two female leads are, alternately, droopy, sleepy, drunken, stupid, self-sabotaging, and/or naked? Where the serial killer is more appealing than they are? The male characters here are lively, fascinating, and/or sexy, by turns. The women? They are so under realized, so . . . fungal - - as in fungal life forms, creatures that reveal little personality or motivation or locomotion or thought - - that, while you aren't actually rooting for the serial killer, you do wish you could jump up onscreen, smack these women hard across the face, get them into a cold shower, and inject them with some B 12.
And, aren't there already enough B-grade slasher movies out there where women in skimpy dresses and high heels make moves so stupid that the audience screams at the screen? Do we really need an artsy version?
This movie doesn't just punish its fictional characters; it also punishes the very fine actress, Meg Ryan. There are scenes whose whole point seems to be, "Look! Meg Ryan has bags under her eyes!" and other scenes that revolve around, "Look! You get to see Meg Ryan's private parts!" There are similar scenes with Jennifer Jason Leigh, but she's made a career out of this kind of thing, and I wouldn't want to object to her bread and butter.
If a male director had made this movie, women - - I - - would be braying.
There is something very much worth seeing here, though. It's Mark Ruffalo as a police officer cum sex fantasy cum suspected serial killer.
Ruffalo is so excellent here, sexy, earthy, smoldering, vulnerable, alternately, as the plot needs him to be, eminently believable as a dedicated New York City cop who learned how to make love to women early in life and has been collecting lessons ever since, or as a suspected Serial Killer who likes chopping up female bodies - - he's so one hundred per cent fine and memorable at all this that you really want to invent some new video technology that can extract him from the drek surrounding him and insert him into a much better movie.
Let's hope he finds his way to a much better movie, very soon, in which he gets to do everything he does here, and more - - serve a worthy plot.
Kevin Bacon, as an unhinged medical student and owner of a hairless dog, steals his few brief scenes from a nearly catatonic Meg Ryan. He's scary, loud, and fun. Sort of like a car wreck, you can't look away.
Finally, it must be said that "In the Cut" contains some strikingly beautiful scenes. The cinematography and composition of some shots bring Gaugin to mind, even though they depict the grimier reaches of lower Manhattan.
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| Rating | | | Date | July 08, 2005 | | Summary | A Good Psychological Thriller | Content
| To start, in the future this movies significant claim to fame will be as the first film that shows Meg Ryan bare her clothes performing several graphic sexual scenes. The storyline focuses on Frannie (Meg Ryan) who is portrayed an isolated English teacher who has a passion for "words and phrases" believing them to have a sexual or violent context. Frannie is a half-sister to Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) actual employment suggests a stripper and she lives above the club. About mid-movie the family history is touched on and the connection made. Mark Ruffalo plays Detective Malloy and does so quite well adding a nice sense of realism to the role. Malloy is investigating a series of violent murders and the story is basically a psychological thiller and Director Jane Campion makes good use of this genre. It is a very dark movie not only visually but contextually and as with all movies this setting alone may not be for all people. Kevin Bacon is in the movie as a current-former lover of Frannies although checking the credits twice I'd not found him listed. His character adds significantly to the overall intertwining of the story. Based upon Susanna Moore's novel. A good movie for a rainy, dark evening! Similiar in its violence to films like Se7en. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 05, 2005 | | Summary | A Different side of Meg Ryan | Content
| After many years as a popular main stream actress, Meg Ryan, in this film, decided to show us what she's got and whats she's got ain't bad. It's almost but not quite worth the price of admission. Ryan, playing the quiet, somewhat apathetic English teacher, Franny, gets romantically involved with Detective Mallory, played by Mark Ruffalo, during a murder investigation.
Director Jane Campion does a comendable job of develing the hot and cold, sometimes steamy relationship between Ryan and Ruffalo but at the expense of the overall story line. Apparently she decided to exploit the erotic aspect of the story and concentrate on that rather than properly develop the suspenseful angle to it's full potential.
She does try to create more of a thriller feeling toward the end but it hasn't been properly set up and it falls short in that respect. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 27, 2005 | | Summary | In the cut | Content
| First of all Meg Ryan isn't exactley one of my favorite actreses infact I think that her previous films are rather annoying like sleeples in seatle and its about time that she has tried a different role instead of being in another nauseiating romantic comedy film. Another reason to watch this is obviously because of her first nude scene but I'll get to that later, Meg Ryan plays Frannie who is a high school english teacher she is also researching for a book on slang terms? when all of a sudden she witnesses a sexual encounter down in the basment of a bar and becomes a suspect in a investigation involving the murder of a prostitute that lives across her apartment, The detective Frank Malloy played by Mark Ruffalo who is investigating the case has a very crude personality but soon it seems like a relationship develops between the two characters Franie is realy attracted to him as she soon tells her half sister and best freind Pauline played by Jennifer Jason Liegh.
Kevin Bacon has a cameo role in this film as Frannie's ex-boyfriend and also provides the only comic relief in this dark film, what I also didn't like in the film was the cinamatography which made some scene to look like they were abit out of focus which didn't fit the style of this film and the story line was a bit weak otherwise I connot recomend this to the viewer who is looking for a good Meg Ryan film to watch because they might be shocked lol to find out that she has some pretty explicit sex scenes in this film, watch it only if you are interested in watching her make a complete departure from her good and clean image and her character Frannie was an interesting role that was more complex and I'm not going to get into was the only thing that kept this from being an average thriller that we have allready seen many times before. |
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