Twisted

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Summary: not a turkey
Review: My wife and I were lucky enough to see this movie at Mann's Chinese Theater during Oscars weekend while on holiday in LA.

We are both fans of good movies and, quite honestly, this film delivers the goods and sometimes more. It doesn't matter if you can work out the ending in advance, it is an extremely competent piece of film-making. Not an ewigkeitswerk perhaps, but very good all the same

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Summary: Waiting for the DVD
Review: The movie sounds pretty good, I never listen to reviews from critics; I prefer to form my own opinion. I am a Russell Wong admirer and I really want to see the movie to see him. I do like Samuel Jackson, Andy Garcia and of course Ashley Judd. They are all fine actors. I am very anxious for the DVD to be made available. Thanks

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Summary: THE TRAILER PROMISED SO MUCH MORE
Review: The trailer promised so much more. How could you go wrong with Ashley Judd playing a cop who bangs every hot guy she meets in the roughest bar in town and then finds them dead as part of her SFPD homicide duties? Well, somehow TWISTED is as good as an ABC Sunday night movie.

Judd is a sex addict and an alcoholic, haunted by the violent deaths of her parents. Her mother was a slut too, and her father apparently killed several of her lovers before wasting his wife and them himself. As her father was also an SFPD cop, this frustrates Judd to no end.

After the deaths of her parents, Judd was taken in by her father's partner, Samuel L. Jackson. Judd drinks, passes out, and finds the bodies of former sex partners. All you have to do is figure out who in her life is killing all her lovers. He also killed her parents. Surprise, surprise.

Enjoyable, because Judd is poetry in motion. Maybe you should wait and rent it when it comes out on DVD in a couple of months.

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Summary: A disappointing thriller
Review: This dark mystery had quite a build-up and promised to be a blockbuster film, given the excellent cast headliners and picturesque San Francisco shooting locations but this movie never really got going. Ashley Judd tries hard and is sexy and tough but her character, a homicide detective with serious personal issues, just isn't believable. What police officer, especially a woman, would frequent bars and engage in a series of one-night stands and put herself at risk just for a roll in the hay with a complete stranger? That her conquests turn up dead doesn't help Ms. Shepard at all and soon she becomes the main suspect in a string of serial murders. Samuel L. Jackson and Andy Garcia do what they can with the material but the plot just doesn't make sense and the red herrings tossed at the audience have a connect-the-dots feel. The film seems to lack a certain rhythm and tension in spite of its subject matter, the three marquee names and the first-rate technical credits. "Twisted" should be a much better film than it is but something is missing. The finale was a bit of a letdown and I left the theater feeling that the opportunity to make a great thriller was lost.

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Summary: Yawn
Review: This movie got a great credential: Ashley Judd, Andy Garcia & Samuel Jackson. The storyline is what you would expect from Hollywood. Ashley's character is a homicide detective. His father was a detective as well, partnered to Samuel Jackson's character but alas, he committed suicide. Her mum was supposedly killed by her father, according to Samuel's character who is now chief to Ashley's character. Anyhow, despite that Ashley's character is a great detective, she is a fallen angel, who has the propensity to be violent to his suspects & she torments herself by sleeping with men of violent temparement. The movie got excited when all the men she slept with died a violent death. It's the case of a serial killer who attempted to outwit the investigators. Andy played Ashley's character's partner but as any Hollywood movies would have it, the suspicion would lead us to believe that he's the killer. Hollywood has a tendency to think that audience is thick & that the twist is always predictable & somewhat daff. In the end, the explanation given to the deaths of those characters & to tie them to the death of Ashley's character's parents is somehow vague & overly illogical. Anyway, it's just an excuse to get this movie made. Truth to be told, all the actors & actresses in this movie are underutilised. The script could be tighter or better. Give me "Law & Order" anytime. I have just wasted two hours of my valuable time. Forgettable.

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Summary: Definitely could have been better
Review: This movie is not a must.wait till u see it on tv