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Mystic River (2003)
Very Little Redeeming Here
I just don't get why everyone seems to drool over this piece of garbage. Tim Robbins is the only redeeming thing about it, and even then his character completely disolves when he confesses to the murder he didn't commit. His performance as the adult product of child abuse was top notch, but the admission is completely out of character. (I admit I haven't read the book, so maybe it's Lehane's fault). Everyone else's performance is so forced (including Penn's) and unbelievable I was appalled. It's also very un-Clint-like in its choppy direction. Robbins was the only one who came close to the Southie accent, and even he was pretty far away. Not a single character engendered any sympathy, and there wasn't a moment of suspense or uncertainty. In short, it was a poorly acted and directed movie with a predictable plot and unbelievable characters.
Body Shots (1999)
Vacuous Tripe
After watching this insipid piece of self-serving vacuous tripe, I got down on my knees and thanked God that when I was a twenty-something I lived in New York City and not LA. This film doesn't have a single redeeming quality. The title is moronic since it has nothing to do with anything in the movie. The acting is sophomoric (which I should have expected with Tara Reid as the lead). The pretentious direct-to-the-camera commentary by the principals comes off as laughable verbal diarrhea. Truman Capote once said that from the time the wheels of your jet touch down in LA your IQ goes down in a geometrically progressive fashion for each day you remain there. That the makers of this film took themselves seriously bears out his statement.
Baise-moi (2000)
Watching the Film First Would Help
I'm amazed at how many people who review this film make the error of saying that it's a film about two women who go on a crime/sex spree after being violently raped. Anyone going down this path clearly didn't watch the movie (probably skipping from chapter to chapter on the DVD looking for the 'good stuff') or just plain didn't pay attention to what they were watching. True enough, two women get raped, but only one of them goes on the spree. The other one witnesses (more or less) the murder of the person who is probably her only friend. These two meet accidentally after independently experiencing these separate trauma. That's part of the movie's impact. Whether this was an awful movie or a great movie (I fall somewhere in between), it was a powerful movie, not one that anyone could really 'like'.