Twisted (Special Collector's Edition) | Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson

Twisted (Special Collector's Edition) | Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson | nice little crime drama/murder mystery

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	Twisted (Special Collector's Edition) Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson Paramount, 2004 average customer review:based on 69 reviews view larger image
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With a tawdry plot and a short list of suspects, Twisted gives armchair detectives an easy chance to figure out whodunit. Critics roasted this pulpy potboiler, in which Ashley Judd (attempting to repeat the thriller success she had with Double Jeopardy and High Crimes) plays a San Francisco homicide detective who is her own prime suspect in an ongoing serial murder case, in which all of the victims are men she recently slept with. These one-night stands, and a problem with alcoholic blackouts, make Judd's wine-drinking character the loose cannon on the case, and her partner (Andy Garcia) and police commissioner mentor (Samuel L. Jackson) have their own reasons for wanting the case to close. Apparently nobody bothered to point out numerous weaknesses in Sarah Thorp's B-movie screenplay, and with no apparent interest in the proceedings, director Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff) allows Judd to look silly, Garcia to overact, and the whole movie to unfold in murky darkness and dimly lit rooms. Kaufman, Judd, and her costars are capable of better. --Jeff Shannon

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Old Spy Loves This Movie

I caught the first half of this movie on cable, and rented the DVD to see how it ended. I was enchanted, not just by the three actors (Judd whose latest is De-Lovely; Garcia from the Godfather etc; and Juckson from Pulp Fiction, The Negotiator et al), but by the over-all concept and execution.

Ignore the detractors--this is a superb story ably acted and I loved it. We in the clandestine service are quite proud of having the very highest rate of alcoholism, adultery, divorce, and suicide (I have 18 professional suicides in my professional history). I don't carry a badge, I do carry a Walther PPK Limited Edition (with a permit).

All three of these actors are gifted, but seeing Judd in this film, in contrast to her performance and complete make-over in De-Lovely, persuades me that she is one of the greatest female actors of our time and will be offering us many more superb acts with world class male actors for years to come.

This is a lovely first-rate film, and if you have lived with death and dishonor and fear including panic from time to time, this is a homecoming of sorts. Those that do not like it do not understand reality. However, to end on a humble note, spying is 90% boredom, including hours spent in hotel rooms waiting for agents to show up, and the most important skill in spying is typing--four hours for every hour of agent meeting--more if you have to transcribe the required recording of a meeting with a terrorist.

Other spy and cop/firefighter movies I have really enjoyed:
Seven (New Line Platinum Series)
Blown Away
High Crimes
The Hannibal Lecter Collection (Manhunter / The Silence of the Lambs / Hannibal)
The Departed (Widescreen Edition)
Breach (Full Screen Edition)
The Lives of Others
Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Firestorm
Ladder 49 (Widescreen Edition)

and of course anything with Alec Guiness in it (George Smily) and anying with Jason Bourne as the protagonist.

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nice little crime drama/murder mystery

pretty good for the genre.it has suspense,plot twists,a nice
creepy,dark atmosphere.it drop some nice tantalizing clues as to who
the killer may be.Ashley Judd make a real good heroine.she's
certainly credible in he role,as a new homicide inspector with a more
than a little baggage.Sam Jackson is great(once again,as her mentor,as
well as the commissioner.Andy Garcia plays her new partner.he was
OK,but i didn't really feel he completely fit the movie.there was just
something...i really liked David Strathairn,as a police shrink.his role
wasn't that big,but i thought he was impressive,none the less.i also
liked the great Jazz soundtrack.despite all the good things about this
movie,i wouldn't call it great.for one thing,it lacks any intense
action,it's not really riveting or harrowing.so i wouldn't classify it
as a thriller,but more a straight crime drama/murder mystery.i would
have preferred it to be a bit more exciting.for me,Twisted is a 4/5

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