Twisted (2004/I)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Philip Kaufman

Writer (WGA):

Sarah Thorp (written by)

Release Date:

27 February 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Every murder has a mark.

Plot:

Jessica, whose father was a serial killer, is a female police officer. While investigating a murder, she finds herself in the center of her own investigation, when her former lovers start dying around her at a furious pace.

Plot Keywords:

Partner | Police | Father | Murder | Serial Killer

Cast

Ashley Judd	...	Jessica Shepard
Samuel L. Jackson	...	John Mills
Andy Garcia	...	Mike Delmarco
David Strathairn	...	Dr. Melvin Frank
Russell Wong	...	Lieutenant Tong
Camryn Manheim	...	Lisa
Mark Pellegrino	...	Jimmy Schmidt
Titus Welliver	...	Dale Becker
D.W. Moffett	...	Ray Porter
Richard T. Jones	...	Wilson Jefferson
Leland Orser	...	Edmund Cutler
James Oliver Bullock	...	John Flanagan
William Hall	...	Chip Marshall
Joe Duer	...	Larry Geber
Jim Hechim	...	Bob Sherman (as James Hechim)

Also Known As:

The Blackout Murders (USA) (working title)
Twisted - Der erste Verdacht (Germany)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and sexuality.

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA | Germany

Language:

English | Italian | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Brazil:14 | Finland:K-15 | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:16 | Philippines:R-13 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:PG (cut) | UK:15 | USA:R (Certificate #39986) | Indonesia:Dewasa | Singapore:M18 (re-rating) (cut) | Canada:14A (Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Crissy Field, Golden Gate Memorial Recreation Area, San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

Early in the movie, when Shepard is talking to Mills in the pool room at the bar, posters for The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Right Stuff are visible. Both films were directed by Philip Kaufman.

Goofs:

Continuity: In first scene we see her neck is bloodied by the point of her suspect's knife. In the following scene at the bar, her neck is perfectly fine -- no band-aid or even scratch.

Quotes:

Edmund Cutler: [goading her through the jail bars] We all have the capacity to kill! You... Me... Anyone! The problem is control.

Movie Connections:

References Chinatown (1974)

Soundtrack:

One More Nite

Really bad

Let me begin by saying - I love mysteries/thrillers and I really like Ashley Judd. I think she's a cutie and a pretty good actress. But this movie is really lame.

They (whether it is the screenwriter/director/editor or a combination of all three, I'm not sure) cheat throughout the entire movie. It's hard to explain without giving away the ending but the red herrings that they toss in are just unfair to the viewer.

Also, after having watched all of the back-story on the DVD extras, apparently one of their prime objectives while making this movie was to maintain realism throughout. That's one of my main problems with the script. It was very unrealistic. Although there were probably 50 or 60 glaring errors I will just mention two of them. When the bodies start turning up and it becomes apparent that Judd has slept with them, in real life, she would have been yanked from the case so fast it would have given her whiplash. I talked to a friend of mine, a Dallas police officer, and he agreed wholeheartedly. He said that to keep her on the case would have been laughable.

Speaking of laughable, that is the second problem I have with the movie. Every time Ashley Judd swills down another glass of wine and started to pass out, half of our audience started squirming in their seats (out of embarrassment), the other half just laughed out loud. It was pretty ridiculous. To top it off, the dialog throughout is rather inane.

The ending is as bad as the rest. Save your time on this drivel.