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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.

Rated: 15 [See Full Rating] for violence, language and sexuality

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Dramas

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... 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 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. [More]

Starring: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn

Starring: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn, Russell Wong, Mark Pellegrino, Camryn Manheim, D.W. Moffett

Director: Philip Kaufman

Director: Philip Kaufman
Screenwriter: Sarah Thorp
Producer: Arnold Kopelson, Anne Kopelson, Barry Baeres, Linne Radmin
Composer: Mark Isham
Studio: Paramount Pictures

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Sarah Thorp’s script is twisted in all the wrong ways.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
02/26/04
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

An awfully tedious thriller that makes great waste of the talent involved Twisted is awkward, predictable, convoluted and terribly implausible.

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
02/26/04
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

What the hell was Ashley Judd thinking? I’ve seen better at 3 A.M. on Cinemax.

Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
02/26/04
Sara Brady
Sara Brady
Premiere Magazine

one of the least satisfying thrillers in years

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
02/26/04
David Levine
David Levine
Filmcritic.com

Ashley Judd seems to go out of her way to find hole-riddled women-in-peril B-thrillers. It's as if she's doing everything in her power not to be taken seriously as an actress.

Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
02/26/04
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

The only way you could stuff one more movie cop cliché into Twisted would be with a shoehorn and a sledgehammer.

Full Review Source: About.com | comment Comment
02/25/04
Rebecca Murray
Rebecca Murray
About.com

A standard police tale evoking the usual unintentional laughs from the audience.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
02/25/04
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

Ashley Judd and her A-list cast can’t rise above the hackneyed and clichéd dialogue and conventional climax.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
02/25/04
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

Top contender for worst script of the year ... [a] mysteryless mystery and [a] thrillerless thriller.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
02/25/04
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews

A pretty lousy movie, which would be offensive were it not safely neutered by its own stupidity.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
02/25/04
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
Entertainment Weekly

Characters get distorted and motivations warped in this police thriller in order to keep bodies piling up and clues pointing in all directions.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
02/24/04
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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