Rating: 
Summary: Astoundingly Bad
Review: I guess this is supposed to be an erotic thriller. Meg Ryan has some fairly intense lovemaking scenes and appears nude, so maybe the term "erotic" fits. There's not a single thrill in this movie, however. The characters are flat, undeveloped, lifeless, uninteresting and not particularly likeable. The story is laughable -- disjointed, dull, uninteresting ... You get the picture. How this "story" ever made it to the screen is beyond belief, but I guess it should encourage anyone interested in being a screenwriter -- if this sold, anything will sell. This really is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of bad ones.
Rating: 
Summary: What a Good Movie!
Review: I didn't expect much from this movie. After all the negative reviews, I questioned why I would want to give it a try. Yet I was really in the mood to watch a suspense film, and decided to chance it. I loved this movie! Everything about it. I was entertained and moved by most of the relationships in the film. I found the main characters to be real, and sympathetic. At first glance I thought Mark Ruffalo was miscast, but I was wrong. His character knew how to be really sexy. If men like him really exist, I hope I find one. Meg Ryan and her character captured beautifully the complicated drives that make up an unconventional, multi-faceted woman. I envied the close relationship between the two sisters. If you've ever had a friend you could tell anything to, you'll know what I mean. I loved Jennifer Jason Lee's performance. I didn't even know it was her until I read the credits. Maybe in the book on which this movie is based, the secondary characters might have been more fleshed out, but for me, they were fine in conveying types with outwardly overpowering needs. I didn't find the film to be [with lotof adult content], but rather sexually honest. Only the early scene with the few seconds of [some adult content] might be considered excessive for a mainstream film. I honestly was caught up in the suspense, and when the film was over, I felt a sort of bliss that comes only rarely, such as when I've read an incredible book, or watched a wonderful movie. I feel regretful that film was not critically acclaimed. In my opinion it should have been more appreciated, but it obviously isn't to everyone's taste. I, on the other hand, have been enriched by viewing it.
Rating:
Summary: Meg Ryan can do better!
Review: Worst movie that I have ever seen with Meg Ryan, lousy plot and ok acting. Meg, you can do better (and have)!
Rating:
Summary: About as bad as it gets
Review: Weird, slow, boring. I guess it's supposed to by a mystery thriller, but I wouldn't call it a thriller. I've been falling asleep all movie long. The ending is marginally interesting, but also weak and not thought through. Get this only if you want to see Meg Ryan naked (unless it was her body double). Otherwise this moive is pretty worthless. One of those horrible "all-star" movies with Meg Ryan, Kevin Bacon, produced by Nicole Kidman pretty much for the three of them to enjoy - not for anybody else.
Rating: 
Summary: A Darkly Erotic Thriller!
Review: "In The Cut" is an adaptation of Susanna Moore's excellent novel of the same title, published in 1995. Director Jane Campion has departed significantly from the novel in several places, especially with the ending, but has managed to capture much of the book's eroticism, dark edginess, and palpable suspense. Frannie Avery, superbly acted by Meg Ryan, is an attractive 35 year-old divorcee who lives in a two room apartment on Washington Square. She teaches creative writing at NYU to a group of inner-city teens. She is also a connoisseur and scholar of language and is writing a book on street slang and its derivatives. Frannie takes chances. She is a sexual risk taker. However, she lives in her own private world where she spends an incredible amount of time pondering the nature of language, which leaves her vulnerable to her surroundings...and reality. Frannie is not at all street savvy. And her nearsightedness allows her to disengage even more from the potentially dangerous world in which she lives. One late afternoon, in a neighborhood bar, she makes a trip to the ladies room and inadvertently walks-in on a couple engaged in an intimate act. The man's face is obscured by shadow but she does notice that he has a unique tattoo on the inside of his wrist. A few days later a NYC homicide detective, James E. Malloy (Mark Ruffalo), seeks Frannie out for an interview. There has been a brutal murder in the neighborhood. The victim is the woman Frannie saw performing the sex act in the bar. The evening Frannie saw her was her last.
Malloy takes risks also. He totally defies all rules about relationships between a detective and potential witness and acts on the tremendous sexual attraction between Frannie and himself. Malloy epitomizes the "tough guy with a badge," his frank blunt language adding to Frannie's turn-on. From the first, however, she knew that Malloy had a tattoo on his wrist - a tattoo she had seen once before. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Pauline, Frannie's spacey, obsessive half-sister and the person Frannie is closest to and loves. She lives above a topless bar in downtown Manhattan and the affection both women feel for the erotic dancers, the entire ambiance of the club and its proximity to their lives, reestablishes the sense of careless oblivion to danger. Together the two ponder the ups and downs of being female, discuss sexuality and romance and their father's many foibles. Kevin Bacon is Frannie's off-the-wall ex-boyfriend who stalks her and maintains a threatening presence throughout. And Sharrieff Pugh is excellent as one of Frannie's brightest students who is fixated upon John Wayne Gacy. Jane Campion, an extraordinary director, has not given us a typical mystery thriller about a vicious serial killer. "In The Cut" is more an exploration of the sexuality and inner life of an intelligent, creative, emotionally starved women approaching middle age. Detective Mallory's aggressive masculinity and the threat of the physical danger which surrounds her jar Frannie awake. The films portrays an urban environment of muted violence just waiting to explode and the colors and sounds of Campion's New York add to the building tension. There are some superbly staged sequences which give a hallucinatory, almost nightmarish quality to the scenes. The intense and honest performances really compensate for the movie's flaws. I found myself totally absorbed. Recommended - but be warned, this is not a movie for the sqeamish or faint of heart!
JANA
Rating:
Summary: "In The Cut' should've been left on the floor
Review: In the Cut we get to finally get to see Meg Ryan In The RAW. Meg looked fantastic, but what a disappointment!! If Meg wanted to do a nude scene, I'm all for it, but she wasted it on this dark, depressing, and very boring film. It was slow and very predictable. (...) If for what ever reason you have to see this movie, rent it. Buying it is a waste of $20. Watching it is a waste of 2 hours. Meg if you're reading this do yourself a favor and get Ashley Judd's agent to get you some roles in some good movies. Meg is one of my favorite actresses but this film is a stinker.
Rating: 
Summary: Don't read this unless you've already seen it
Review: In The Cut is a sexually flamboyant modern day noir-style thriller with a large sense of eroticism and atmosphere, but very little sense of story progression. Undermining the raunchyness and all the (...) scenes is a fairly boring and uninterersting crime story that literally goes nowhere. I was hoping for a better ending that would've brought meaning to the 60 minutes of scenes that bored me to death. Sure, there would be a a hot scene or two, somebody would get mangeled and then it repeated that for 45 minutes. By the time the 3rd or 4th victim was killed, I really could've cared less about the story of desire and obsession between Frannie and the detective. I just wanted to know what the movie was getting at as far as the killer goes so that the movie would end and I could get on with my life. In the end it would all tie together, but I didn't really care by that time, I just wanted it to be over.
Rating:
Summary: Meg Ryan's best cut yet!
Review: Two thumbs up for Meg Ryan! Having seen her for so long as the typically nice, witty, and pretty girl in romantic comedies such as "When Harry Met Sally", "Sleepless in Seattle", "You've Got Mail", and "The French Kiss", I would say that she really cut it in "In The Cut", a psycho-thriller based on Susanna Moore book. That's the sole reason why I give a five-star rating. However, the storyline is not that special. I aggree with one of
the previous reviewers that the movie is more psychological than typical thriller. The grim and bleak atmosphere reminds me more of "The People I Know" (starring Al Pacino), which is, by the way, not a thriller, than "Seven" (Brad Pitt), which is one of the best thrillers I've ever seen on the screen. Mark Rufallo, as the no-nonsense NYPD Detective Malloy was well cast to boost the never-before-seen-side of Ryan's screen personality. The erotic scenes between Ryan and Rufallo are great. Really first rate. In my opinion, it could only be achieved by a female director. And those scenes are really worthy of Jane Campion. (Even now I can still recall the erotic sparks between Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel in "The Piano"). Under Campion direction in this film, Ryan appears as a totally new personality, even better than her characterizations in "Courage Under Fire" and "Proof of Life".(*)
Rating: 
Summary: In the Cut - A lackluster thriller!
Review: Simply put, if any man tells you that they either, went to the theater, purchased or rented this film because they thought that it would be a great thriller of a murder/mystery type movie is telling a tale of their own. I, like most others, simply wanted to watch this movie as for the first time ever; Meg Ryan who is one of Americas Hollywood sweethearts of so many great films was finally going to do a nude scene, plain and simple. That being said, yes there are some fairly "interesting" scenes with Meg in this film but as a whole, the story is horribly predictable and the nude scenes are exhibitionist at best and really do nothing to further the film other than show that her character is an isolated, lonely woman that becomes attracted to a cop. Performance wise, Meg Ryan in this film is so totally different than any other character she's ever played before, which in part may be why she wanted to do the part. Overall, the part and the film do more to detract from her body of work than to actually enhance it, no pun intended! Mark Ruffalo's performance is a very good one when considering any previous minor roles he might've been noticed in on other films. Jennifer Jason Leigh's minor part in the film doesn't really give her an opportunity to shine as she's quite capable of. "In the Cut" is the first film that I've watched that Jane Campion has directed and unfortunately this film doesn't leave an overwhelmingly satisfying impression of her work for me. Whether it's the script or the directing, this film is almost entirely flat, one dimensional and is clearly relying on the fact that it's the first time Meg Ryan does nudity to make any money whatsoever! The Premise: Meg Ryan plays Frannie Averey, a lonely high school teacher living in New York City who is also trying to write a book on slang words. Very early in the film she's in a bar with one of her students who is teaching her some of those slang words and when she excuses herself to go to the restroom, she's afforded the opportunity to spy on a couple doing what couples do and she notices a tattoo on the mans arm. Later that week, Detective Giovanni Malloy shows up at her door wanting to know if she'd noticed anything strange as there is a serial killer loose and that killer left one of his victim's body parts in her garden, she notices that he has the very same tattoo and believes he was the one in the bar... What follows from there is a fairly tedious film that relies much too much on sex scenes to carry the story and not on good screenwriting and scripting! I would only recommend this film to fans of Meg Ryan's who just "have" to see it for what it is, but to those interested in seeing a well made thriller, looking elsewhere may be the best option! {ssintrepid} Special Features: -Director and Producer's Commentary
-Slang Dictionary Featurette
-"Making of" Featurette
-Theatrical Trailers
Rating:
Summary: Truely horrible
Review: Jane Champion does a wonderful job shooting women alone.
Her photography gives Meg Ryan and Jennifer Jayson Lee
a lovely, languid [attractive] feel. And that's it. This is the only good thing about the movie.
The plot, such as it is revolves around the romantic
entanglement of Meg Ryan's character Frannie Averey
and Mark Ruffalo's Detective Malloy. Unfortunately
there is no chemistry between them at all. Meg Ryan comes
off as a very confused and disturbed person who surrounds
herself with unappealing people. Into this mix is a grisley
murder, which Malloy investigates. Unfortunately, again,
the plot makes no sense what so ever. Truely horrible.
I'm sorry I ever saw this terrible film and wasted almost
two hours watching it. Those two hours, I might add, seemed
much longer. So, save yourself the pain: stay away.
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