The movie may dole out a few guilty pleasures, but you won’t believe a word of it.
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07/09/04
Twisted (2004)
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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
Reviews for Twisted
Top CriticThe only surprise in this supposedly tricky thriller is that the script attracted this cast and director.
03/06/04
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.
02/09/06
Top CriticRemember kids, alcohol is bad, mmm-kay?
07/10/04
The only way you could stuff one more movie cop cliché into Twisted would be with a shoehorn and a sledgehammer.
02/25/04
It would be very easy for her to find out if she’s killing during her blackouts... She could just set up a video camera before she drinks and watch the tape the next day!
02/27/04
No edge, no sense of danger...Twisted is perhaps the tamest psychosexual thriller ever made.
03/10/04
There’s lots to like about it, but none of this ultimately matters when you come out of the movie feeling cheated.
03/03/04
It entertains much like an easy crossword puzzle. You feel smart for figuring it out, then realize it wasn't all that tough.
02/26/04
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.
02/26/04
Ridiculously overwrought and sporting an unfriendly little subtext hinting that women with anxious libidos are to be studiously avoided at all costs -- especially when they carry sidearms.
03/17/04
"Twisted" is a train wreck, with Ashley Judd stuck in the caboose.
03/25/04
[A] blatantly dumb anti-thriller.
03/01/04
Twisted is eerily similar in its story line to In the Cut, the much pasted Meg Ryan sex-and-death thriller that came out last year. Only it's worse.
02/27/04
You’re not sure whether to take the film as a sophisticated parody, a surrealist prose poem, or an unusually dumb thriller.
03/06/04
I vote we all chip in and get Ashley Judd singing lessons so she can re-join the Judd family on tour.
03/05/04
Despite Judd's assured work as the flawed, deeply conflicted protagonist, the mystery at the core of Twisted is one that grows less interesting the closer we get to the truth.
02/26/04
No one associated with the film tries very hard, from cinematographer Peter Deming -- San Francisco has never looked so drab -- to composer Mark Isham, whose watery jazz score is meant to summon melancholy but merely relieves insomnia.
02/26/04
This thriller seems most interested in lingering over battered and bloodied male faces.
01/05/07
Top CriticWalks like a thriller and talks like a thriller, but it squawks like a turkey.
02/27/04
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