Method (2004)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Duncan Roy

Writers:

Katie L. Fetting (screenplay)
Duncan Roy (story)

Release Date:

24 June 2004 (Russia)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

Beauty can be a killer.

Plot:

A celebrity actress who gets her dream role playing real-life 19th century serial killer Belle Gunness in a feature film, starts to take on the characteristics of the character both on-screen and off.

Plot Keywords:

Indiana | Romania | Widow | Lovers | Movie Star

Cast

Elizabeth Hurley	...	Rebecca
Jeremy Sisto	...	Jake Fields
Oliver Tobias	...	Teddy
Carmen du Sautoy	...	Mother (Mona)
Sam Douglas	...	Mr. Hinkley
Hannah Yelland	...	Bethany Fields
Robin Soans	...	Mr. Helgelein
Peter Banks	...	Asle
Howard Samuelsohn	...	Himself
Ioana Pavelescu	...	Real-life Belle
Maria Pintea	...	Jenny
Marinela Chelaru	...	Agnes (as Marilena Chelaru)
Razvan Popa	...	John, the DP (as Popa Razvan)
Matthew Woodcutt	...	Banker (as Matthew [Mapps] Woodcutt)
Mircea Brambareauu	...	Grip

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and some sexuality.

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

UK | Romania | Switzerland | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Germany:16 | UK:15 | Argentina:16 | Netherlands:16 | Australia:MA | Singapore:M18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Castel Film Studios, Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Andrew Stevens Entertainment

Trivia:

John Barrowman is only listed in the opening titles and not at all in the cast list in the end titles.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: In a scene from the movie-within-the-movie, set in the 1900s, a traveling salesman is paid in modern currency.

Quotes:

[last title card]
Title Card: Belle Gunness, responsible for more than 40 murders, was never brought to justice.

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A total waste of a rental fee. The story involves a method actress who believes in 'becoming the character'. She plays a serial killer and bodies start turning up. Did she or didn't she?

It's an interesting idea, but why-why, why, oh why--would producers spend so much money on period sets, fine actors, beautiful photography, and then use such an incoherent, cliché-ridden script. My mother and I watched it together, and together we couldn't figure out what was going on half the time. The movie jumps back and forth between the film and the film-within-the-film and the filming-of-the-film-within-the-film (still in period costume, so you don't know at first), and from reality to hallucination. At the end it's not really made clear who killed who, and some of the answers aren't really credible. Why waste a lovely woman like Elizabeth Hurley in such a piece of poo-poo?