Twisted Reviews

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a pretty cool cast, I thought I should give it a try. If I recall correctly, I saw this one with my wife because she has a huge weak spot for thrillers. Personally, I always had a somewhat difficult relationship with the typical US thrillers and this movie is a perfect example. Indeed, it started quite alright, there was indeed a nice cast (Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn) and they all delivered some decent performances. I always had a weak spot for Ashley Judd, back in those days, she was still on the A list and she was basically the Queen of the thrillers after showing up in ‘Kiss the Girls’, ‘Double Jeopardy’ and ‘High Crimes’. Furthermore, the mood was also quite decent and the whole thing seemed to be a watchable feature in this genre. Unfortunately, and this is the main reason why I have such a hard time with this kind of movies, the ending was just downright ridiculous. I mean, it is typical with thrillers, the build-up is pretty nice and entertaining but they always have to finish up with some preposterous twist ending, usually involving some random action scene, ruining the whole thing. Well, in this case, the ending was indeed very weak. To conclude, even though it had some potential, it is actually a rather weak thriller and it is not really worth a look, I’m afraid.

I would hardly call this 'twisted'. What they're trying to tell you is that the ending has a twist, but it's twisted in a way that nothing makes sense in the ending. It was easy enough to guess who was behind the murders, and I hate it in films like this when they need a twist so they pull out a random person to be responsible. No clues, no nothing to explain why.

The plot is convincing though, if only it was made better by the acting and 'twist'. It follows a female police officer who is investigating a series of murders, and soon finds out that she has slept with all of the victims. The plot tries to draw you in with the possibility that she might be the killer she is looking for, she seems to be going a bit crazy dealing with her father's death.

It wasn't just the ending that is this movie's downfall. The acting could have been a lot better, it seemed as if they just didn't care. Ashley Judd was okay, nothing more. Samuel L. Jackson was the easiest to tell that he gave this movie nothing special, and then Andy Garcia was really the only decent performance, I kind of liked his character.

It's not something I would recommend for anyone to see, but hey, maybe you might enjoy it more than I did.

The mystery side raised some eyebrows but the outcome was so pathetic that any episode in the Law & Order series would have made a more "twisted" ending than this.