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Reviews Counted:131
Fresh:2
Rotten:129
Average Rating:2.9/10
Consensus: An implausible, overheated potboiler that squanders a stellar cast, Twisted is a clichéd, risible whodunit.
Theatrical Release:09-07-2004
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn
Director: Philip Kaufman
Sarah Thorpe’s screenplay is a compendium of by-the-book clichés; Kaufman’s direction leaves the material stranded in a limbo between po-faced and trashy; Judd’s approximation of drunkenness is worrying to behold.
Top CriticThe movie may dole out a few guilty pleasures, but you won’t believe a word of it.
Top CriticRemember kids, alcohol is bad, mmm-kay?
The only surprise in this supposedly tricky thriller is that the script attracted this cast and director.
This thriller seems most interested in lingering over battered and bloodied male faces.
Top CriticPaltry and stupefyingly poor excuse for a thriller.
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Top CriticThe greatest mystery in this nonsensical thriller is why Philip Kaufman, a first-rate director, lent his talents to such a mediocre piece of studio hackwork.
Top CriticUna de esas película que sin el cast que tiene pasaría sin pena ni gloria al olvido.
An awfully tedious thriller that makes great waste of the talent involved Twisted is awkward, predictable, convoluted and terribly implausible.
A nasty, formulaic and unforgivably obvious procedural.
A run-of-the-mill thriller that will fade from memory as quickly as poor Jessica's boyfriends are getting bumped off
'Twisted,' a psychological thriller with little psychology and fewer thrills, is almost worth watching because of its trio of charismatic stars.
Just like nearly all of Judd's past entries in the genre, this film isn't great, it's just average.
It entertains much like an easy crossword puzzle. You feel smart for figuring it out, then realize it wasn't all that tough.
What happens when you combine good actors, a talented director and an awful script? Twisted answers that question so quickly it could have been made as a kind of negative case study for film students.
Twisted dies at almost the very moment it begins.
There’s lots to like about it, but none of this ultimately matters when you come out of the movie feeling cheated.
Hard-hitting police thrillers need a smidgen of authenticity, but Sarah Thorp's script is riddled with implausible events, inconsistent characters and head-scratching twists that don't add up.
Judd is let down by Twisted because tearful, confused victim doesn't come naturally to her; she's not fun to watch suffer if you can't see her calculating the payback.
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