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100Twisted is an unusual forensic crime film because it's witty and sophisticated as well as taut and creepy.
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50A neo-noir movie nightmare gone sadly wrong.
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50Twisted is a movie so derivative it's hard to pinpoint exactly how many other thrillers it poaches from.
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50By Twisted's final twist, though, it's all Judd can do to keep a straight face.
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50It'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.
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A snore.
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40The movie may dole out a few guilty pleasures, but you won’t believe a word of it.
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40Laborious and nonsensical psychological thriller, a mediocre piece of studio hackwork unredeemed by a first-rate director.
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38Walks like a thriller and talks like a thriller, but it squawks like a turkey.
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38It'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.
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38This 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.
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38Twisted 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.
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38Laughably clichéd, abominably written, astonishingly dreadful attempt at a psycho-sexual thriller.
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38No 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.
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30Combining the ludicrous with the lurid, Twisted is twisted all right.
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30Totally unwatchable if it weren't for Ashley Judd.
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30Insipid embarrassment.
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30Twisted 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.
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30Sarah Thorp’s lazy script lurches from the lame to the ludicrous.
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30A dreary, weary psychosexual thriller that's neither sexy nor thrilling.
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30Gives new meaning to the word "obvious."
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30A nasty, formulaic and unforgivably obvious procedural.
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30Director 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.
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25Surely it couldn't be meant as dramatic realism! But it is. And amazingly, the movie gets worse as it goes along.
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25Not 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.
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25Eerily 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.
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25A pretty lousy movie, which would be offensive were it not safely neutered by its own stupidity.
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25The 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.
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20In 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.
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20Ridiculously overwrought.
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No mystery here: Twisted is D.O.A.
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20Kaufman 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.
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10Twisted 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.
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0So utterly devoid of suspense, energy or credibility it should have been shipped straight to the remainder bin at Blockbuster.
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