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Twisted

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 34 critic reviews
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Based on 13 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Sarah Thorp
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 27, 2004
DVD: August 31, 2004
Running Time: 97 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / Germany
Summary
RATING: R for violence, language and sexuality
Starring Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn, Russell Wong, Camryn Manheim, Mark Pellegrino, and Titus Welliver
Newly promoted police inspector Jessica Shepard (Judd) is searching for a serial killer, and is shocked to discover that the men she has recently slept with are the victims. (Paramount)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Twisted is an unusual forensic crime film because it's witty and sophisticated as well as taut and creepy.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Twisted is a movie so derivative it's hard to pinpoint exactly how many other thrillers it poaches from.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
By Twisted's final twist, though, it's all Judd can do to keep a straight face.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
It's always rather sad to watch gifted performers stranded in a tepid thriller. You can see them, as professional pretenders, trying to believe that they're creating a character, but the lie is transparent -- all they're really doing is advancing a retarded plot.
Read Full Review >Empire Anna Smith
The movie may dole out a few guilty pleasures, but you wont believe a word of it.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Laborious and nonsensical psychological thriller, a mediocre piece of studio hackwork unredeemed by a first-rate director.
Read Full Review >Premiere Sara Brady
Laughably clichéd, abominably written, astonishingly dreadful attempt at a psycho-sexual thriller.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Twisted is a D-grade thriller with an A-list cast. It's a disappointment from start to finish...But, in the final quarter-hour, it committed the unpardonable sin of insulting my intelligence.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Walks like a thriller and talks like a thriller, but it squawks like a turkey.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
This is by far Kaufman's worst outing since becoming a major filmmaker more than a quarter-century ago, and the fact that his only other stinker from this period is 1993's "Rising Sun" means that maybe he ought to stay away from cop melodramas.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
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.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
It's an old maxim that you can't make a good movie from a bad script. But with the suspense thriller Twisted, Philip Kaufman shows that you can make one that looks like it should be good.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
A nasty, formulaic and unforgivably obvious procedural.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
Twisted is rubbish, but it looks good enough, moves fast enough and does improve as it progresses, principally because its plot disintegrtes to the point of outright comedy.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
Sarah Thorps lazy script lurches from the lame to the ludicrous.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Director Philip Kaufman's usual flair for erotic detail largely deserts him here, and this thriller seems most interested in lingering over battered and bloodied male faces.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Combining the ludicrous with the lurid, Twisted is twisted all right.
Read Full Review >Variety Scott Foundas
A dreary, weary psychosexual thriller that's neither sexy nor thrilling.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown
A pretty lousy movie, which would be offensive were it not safely neutered by its own stupidity.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Surely it couldn't be meant as dramatic realism! But it is. And amazingly, the movie gets worse as it goes along.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
The movie is a resounding dud: immaculately composed and shot (very much in the Kaufman tradition), but riddled with crime-movie cliches, wincingly obvious in its plot twists and rather badly acted.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Not surprisingly, only Samuel L. Jackson seems fully to understand that he's in a bad movie, and he makes a virtue of it, using it as an excuse to hang loose, overact and ride the scenes for wherever they might go.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
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.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
Kaufman proves again how miraculously in synch with his material he can be. Directing a fourth-rate, maladroit, derivative mystery, he becomes a fourth-rate, maladroit, derivative director--worse even than a TV-movie hack.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
In the hands of a more gleefully provocative filmmaker, this variation on the standard erotic-thriller stew of sleaze, tease and murder, this ludicrous farrago might have been tawdry fun.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Twisted marks a bottoming-out for pretty much everyone involved, particularly Judd and director Philip Kaufman, who should know better. The film is the creative equivalent of waking up naked in a puddle of cheap wine and vomit.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
So utterly devoid of suspense, energy or credibility it should have been shipped straight to the remainder bin at Blockbuster.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 2.1 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Graham M. gave it a0:
Pointless.
Bvyuo V. gave it a 10:
Amazing.
tyler c gave it a 0:
I thought with Ashley Judd, Andy Garcia, and Samuel L Jackson this movie would at least be watchable. Boy was I wrong! I was never engaged with the plot, did not care who the killer was, and almost fell asleep to this movie. This gives the "thriller" genre a bad name!
Sue H. gave it a 0:
I got a beef against Baltimore Sun / Michael Sragow how the hell could he give it 100 for this movie? Sue this paper immediately and get your money back for seeing a movie that pukes of vomit for a false rating. "Sony Pictures may be nearing a settlement in the class action over the use of fake critics, filed by two LA filmgoers, Omar Rezec and Ann Belknap. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the settlement - which charged Sony with misleading filmgoers by quoting a fictional critic in advertisements - could be for more than $1m, meaning that individual moviegoers could receive as much as $5 each, depending on how many decide to claim. "
Efe B. gave it a 0:
I think since they are making films like this...metacritic fellas need to create a "below zero" rating system that enables us the mighty online critics to be able to score points like "-8". because frankly...i think i am putting the big fat red zero to shame by associating it with this. i am gona kill this movie...you wanna read it and have a good time?...here we go, number one: the name of the film is twisted, but for something to be "twisted" it needs to be straight first...thats not this movie. number two: make sure you bring a friend with you when you see this film, because you will need a witness to remind you that you were NOT infact in hell, but rather in your home watching a dvd. nunmber treeee: if you want to be a filmmaker or just join the film industry, this film is sure to make you wanna be a plumber, you will think that cleaning peoples toilets is a more rewarding line of work. number four: make sure you are not eating while watching this film, because whatever you eat, will reappear smack on your plate in the manner of vomit. number five: your t.v might reek of rotten flesh for weeks and attract near by rodents because this film STINKS. number six: while watching this movie, you will question your sanity and you may rise to a conclusion that you are insane, pick up an axe and swing it left and right, damaging furniture or other civilians. number seven: if you make it through the 50 minutes of this film, you will have an urge to receive a medal of courage of somesort, you will stand up, right hand on salute and just wait there for hours for nothing. number whatever: you will write a long and low rating rant at metacritic, and beg hollywod to not kick you in the bottom once again.
Dean T. gave it a 0:
Ashley Judd is a gifted actress doing a surprisely bad movie. I will give her the benefit of the doubt and say it was her agent that talk her into doing this crap. This movie sucks. The plot has so many holes even Sherlock Holmes would walk out of the cinema. The ending is totally implausible to say the least. Leave your brain - thinking cap at home.
Lumiere gave it a 0:
Worst movie of the year. On a level so bad its worse then Gigli. Everything is wrong with this film that's possible. Please avoid it or you will feel horrible.
