Rating: 
Summary: Good but not outstanding.
Review: The dark and "dirty feeling" that you get from watching this movie can be taken for a good review or a bad review. It just depends on how it strikes you. To me the movie was kind of dull, and while it did keep you guessing till the end, it never fully took off. The pace was slow and sometimes numbingly pointless. But it did depict the dark and roughness of urban life. Ruffallo did a fine job, although he looks like a seventies porn star with his mustache. This is a definite change of pace for Meg Ryan, I didn't like it, however. I understand the character that she was portraing, but she does a lot more satistying role in her "You've Got Mail" persona. She took a risk doing a movie like this, and while most times I love an actor or actress stepping away from their typical roles. Such as Bruce Willis know for his run with "Die Hard" and other action flicks, he became notrious for starring in. He went the other way by acting a little more in stuff like "The Sixth Sense." Meg Ryan didn't impress me this time. Even in this explicitly revealing role that she has, there really is not good acting chemistry, not for herself or towards somebody like Ruffallo. At any rate it is worth a look just for the whodunnit? It also shows the more "bare" side of Meg Ryan, which I admit was tastefully done and nice. The story was strong enough, but I think that the movie started on only a half tank.
Rating: 
Summary: You've Got Mail...It AIN'T....
Review: For all the wrong reasons this will be Meg Ryan's most memorable role in one of the most forgettable movies yet. I am not an idiot, well not the biggest one anyway, but perhaps I bought this movie thinking, "Surely Meg Ryan wouldn't make a darn near porno film. Can't be!" I am glad I didn't bet any money. Apparently the ticket to ride in the film industry for the sake of getting your name "out there" or breathing new life into an otherwise diminishing film career, is nudity. You would think in today's age of film, that America is breeding a whole female population of dairy cows. There is enough nipple in this movie and damn-near all movies coming out of Hollywood rated PG-13 and above these days, to feed the infants of the world for an indefinite amount of time. See what I mean? I couldn't tell you one tiny bit about what I remember of the storyline, aside from dismembered bodies, and nudity aplenty. This movie is pivotal in reinforcing the beliefs of many...."Yes,Virginia..." the world IS going to hell in a hand basket. This piece of crap is going on Ebay.
It's a sad day. Now that I have seen our quirky but adorable Meg Ryan in a different as well as disturbing role, it's hard to go back to the heart-warming days of "shop-girl". If changing public opinion of her was indeed her goal, I think she may have been successful, unfortunately. If you loved Meg's roles in the romantic comedy genre, a'la I Love Lucy sweetness, and you don't want that image marred, DO NOT watch this movie. You'll be sorry you did. I am.
Rating: 
Summary: Not Sexy. Not Scary.
Review: Meg Ryan is Frannie, a sexually frustrated creative writing professor. She hangs out with her pal Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and does girl talk (Think 'Sex and the City' without the humour.) She goes for a drink with a student at a dodgy bar and, on her way to the bathroom, stumble on a fumbling sexual liaison where a girl with heavily painted nails is fellating a man with a three of clubs tattoo on his wrist. A cop, Detective Malloy (Mark Ruffalo), turns up and questions her about a nasty killing of a young woman that happened very close by. Next thing he asks he for a date. Next thing they are heavily engaged in graphically depicted, strikingly clinical and joyless sex. Only it turns out Detective Malloy has a three of clubs tattooed to his wrist. And, it turns out, the murdered girl had been out at the very same dodgy bar and had heavily painted nails. Girl meets boy. Girls shags boy. Girl wonders if boy is evil killer. Movie sets out to keep us in suspense until cliffhanger finish. This is not the most original plot in the history of movies. Hitchcock did it so well in "Suspicion" you'd think no one else would have bothered. But it's since turned into a standard plotline in that rather sad modern genre, the so-called 'erotic thriller', as witness 'Sliver', 'Never Talk to Strangers', 'Killing Me Softly' etc. ad nauseam. This film fails signally to take this tired premise anywhere interesting or new. It is neither particularly erotic nor remotely thrilling. In fact, the denouement, when Frannie finds out who the bad guy is and he tries to kill her, is really quite astonishingly unexciting. "Was that it?" you will say? I certainly did.
Rating:
Summary: Not Sexy. Not Scary.
Review: MEg Ryan is Frannie, a sexually frustrated creative writing professor. She hangs out with her pal Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and does girl talk. (Think 'Sex and the City' without the humour.) She goes for a drink with a student at a dodgy bar and, on her way to the bathroom, stumbles on a poorly lit sexual liaison where a girl with heavily painted nails is fellating a man with a three of clubs tattoo on his wrist. A cop, Detective Malloy (Mark Ruffalo), turns up and questions her about a nasty killing of a young woman that happened very close by. Next thing he asks he for a date. Next thing they are heavily engaged in graphically depicted, strikingly clinical and joyless sex. Only it turns out Detective Malloy has a three of clubs tattooed to his wrist. And, it turns out, the murdered girl had been out at the very same dodgy bar and had heavily painted nails. Girl meets boy. Girls shags boy. Girl wonders if boy is evil killer. Movie sets out to keep us in suspense until cliffhanger finish. This is not the most original plot in the history of movies. Hitchcock did it so well in "Suspicion" you'd think no one else would have bothered. But it's since turned into a standard plotline in that rather sad modern genre, the so-called 'erotic thriller', as witness 'Sliver', 'Never Talk to Strangers', 'Killing Me Softly' etc. ad nauseam. This film fails signally to take this tired premise anywhere interesting or new. It is neither particularly erotic nor remotely thrilling. In fact, the denoument, when Frannie finds out who the bad guy is and he tries to kill her, is really quite astonishingly unexciting. "Was that it?" you will say? I certainly did.
Rating:
Summary: in the cut
Review: I think this picture really damaged the reputation of a lovely
lady / Meg Ryan. How could she take part in this absolutely faul movie with so much unnecessary filthy language.
The script was the usual bad cop / assistance too the good cop,
which has been made God knows how many time.To see Meg naked !!
how could she ?? what a damage to this lovely lady of You've got
mail, , Kate & .. , etc ..
how did she see the tatoo on the cop's hand in that dark basement , of this filthy bar ?? For me Meg lost it all.
bad story so much unneccary bad , bad language. What do we see
next Julia Roberts in the new version of "Deep Throat"??
Rating:
Summary: Entertaining For A While
Review: I liked "In the Cut",until the end.This movie had one of the worst endings I had ever seen in my life.It took me a while to get into this movie but once I was I was hooked.The movie is about Francis Avery (Meg Ryan) a loneley school teacher who meets a homicide detective named Giovanni Malloy when he is investigating a murder that happened at her apartment complex.
She is attracted to him at first sight and the two begin a love affair before she discovers he could be dangerous.But things heat up when she is mugged and she is forced to shack up with her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh).Now like I said it was entertaining but it dragged in the beginning and it had a terrible ending.It also had some much un-needed characters like Frannies student Cornelius who has a strange obsession with executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy.Also,this movie isn't a movie prissy parents wanna let their kids watch due to a very graphic sex scene between Francis and Malloy.But if you want to let your kids watch it,go ahead.C+ for the movie,B- for the acting.
Rating:
Summary: crying, tears, blood, flat chest, what else?
Review: totally improbable scenario and plot, lousy script, editing, directing, ridiculous ending. what we got is a flat chest woman, looked so tired and old, tears flowed like leaking faucet, wanted to get laid urgently like those four women in the 'sex & city', with a lousy dose of ridiculous serial killings. two cops with similar tatoo on the wrists, the partner was a serial killer. yaek! since when the n.y.'s finest became a serial killer? now, a new territory was developed. but pls stop here, okay? the other cop, well, a sex machine won't hurt the reputation of the n.y. blues, yeah? for the sexual scenes, give me a break, i don't think that anyone with the least sexual urge would have got aroused by any one of them. save it, man. a slap to the screenwriter, the director, nobody would be more brain-dead like these two. a total waste of time and money on this dvd.
Rating:
Summary: WOW Did this movie SUCK!
Review: WOW DID THIS MOVIE SUCK!!! This was one of the worst movies I have ever seen(along with HOUSE OF THE DEAD and PARTY MONSTER). The ONLY good part was the totally nude scenes with Meg Ryan. Meg you sure went downhill after you left Dennis Quaid...You havent made a good movie since!
Rating:
Summary: A reality test...
Review: Interesting how the reviews on this movie divide up. My hunch is people who consider it "erotic" like their sex artificial, simplistic & performed by others. Everything in the "unrated sex" scenes is flaccid, especially the equipment. Interesting to contrast this for verisimilitude with the sex scene in Angels & Insects.
Rating:
Summary: Meg, you need a new agent!
Review: I wish I could say this was a good film. I happen to like watching Meg Ryan. I wanted it to be good. I won't complain about the film style. I won't complain about the acting. I won't even complain about the direction....and maybe I should. No, this movie's largest trouble is in story. You could sum up the story in two sentences. Okay, maybe three, if your middle sentence is a two word sentence fragment: "gratuitous sex". The writing is weak. The characters are either underdeveloped, or their decisions are unfathomable. I felt like it was two in the morning and I was watching a "B" movie on Skinamax. I'm sorry Meg....if I had it to do all over again, I'd rewatch Prelude to a Kiss or When Harry Met Sally. Please forgive me, I tried.
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