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Description
Against the moody, fog-laden backdrop of the San Francisco waterfront, police detective Jessica Shephard (Ashley Judd) becomes embroiled in a darkly personal hunt for a serial killer in this Hitchcockian psychological thriller directed by Philip Kaufman (THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, QUILLS). Jessica, a San Francisco street cop, has been appointed detective by Police Commissioner John Mills (Samuel L. Jackson), her surrogate father and mentor. Together with her new partner Mike Delmarco (Andy Garcia), she goes after her first assignment, a murder, and is ready for anything until she realizes that the corpse is a man she once slept with. What seems like a bizarre coincidence becomes all too suspicious when the next murder victim is also an acquaintance of the police detective--who is also a blackout drinker with an appetite for anonymous, rough sex. Nightly she returns home, drinks a glass of red wine, and awakens to the news of another victim. Haunted by her own family tragedy (her father went on an insane killing spree and killed her own mother and himself), Jessica begins to doubt her own sanity and suspect herself to be the killer.
Twisted Review
There are some movies that really should have been put out of their misery long before the first reel was shot and "Twisted," ladies and gentlemen is a prime example. So bad it hurts, this wannabe film noir finds poor ol' Ashley Judd playing a supposedly rock-hard police inspector whose habit of hitting the bottle and having rough sex on one-night stands land her in big trouble when one by one, her conquests in the sack turn up dead just as she wakes up from yet another booze-fuelled black-out. Add to that a strange new partner in the shape of Andy Garcia and a fraught family history (her father killed her mother before offing himself) and you've got a salacious psychosexual police flick that even Joe "Basic Instinct" Esterhaz would have been proud of.
So it comes as a big surprise that it's actually a woman - newbie screenwriter Sarah Thorp - that's come up with such a dubious concept that allows her female star to be leered over so repeatedly in one dangerous situation after another. However, it's not just with the writer that the blame for this particular pic should lie: the acting is uneven to say the least, with Garcia delivering an especially baffling performance, the direction stolid rather than sensational and the final twist clankingly obvious. Not even the venerable Samuel L. Jackson as Judd's police commissioner can save this flick from stinking turkey status. Avoid.
Special Features
- Audio commentary from director Philip Kaufman
- Deleted scenes
- 'Creating A Twisted Web Of Intrigue' featurette
- 'The Cutting Room Floor': excised material with optional audio commentary
- 'The Investigators: The Clues Of Crime' featurette
- 'San Francisco: Scene Of The Crime' featurette
- Theatrical trailer
- Interactive menu
- Scene access
Technical Details
Region 2
Year: 2004
Screen: Widescreen 1.85:1 Anamorphic
Languages: English
Duration: 1 hour and 34 minutes (approx)
Genre: Drama
Certificate: TBA To Be Announced
Director: Philip Kaufman
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