In the Cut (R-Rated Edition)

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Summary: Beautiful Meg, Horrible movie.
Review: This is an example of a less than mediocre detective's movie. The characters are phony, the dialogues false, come on, an english teacher does not speak like that, and her would be lover wouldn't speak like that either. Neverteless Meg Ryan's character is a visual attraction in this movie. Terrible plot and terrible direction.

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Summary: come on, campion, you can do better
Review: Meg Ryan stop trying to remake your image already! Personally I don't care what Meg Ryan does, but there are legions of Meg Ryan devotees who want to see her do the same bubble gum role again and again. Every time she tries to do something else, somehow her credibility is questioned. I don't think there is anything wrong with her pursuits and her performances are not THAT bad, but overall... why mess with a good thing? One word comes to mind with regard to this film: gratuitous. In fact there are times when the film is so concerned with pushing the envelope, showing more skin/sex that it loses sight of the fact that there is really no chemistry between Mark Ruffalo and Meg Ryan. It loses sight of the fact that there is really no basis in the story for the attraction between their two characters apart from Ryan's apparent frustration and Ruffalo's apparent directness. And where is the point to Jennifer Jason Leigh here? Or worse yet, the point to the bizarre and virtually unrecognizable presence of Kevin Bacon? In the end I can really only ask what was the point of the whole film?

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Summary: what about "in the butt"
Review: I was very disappointed with this. It had rave reviews for Meg Ryan, which I must admit,for her as an actress this was very different for her. She pulled it off really well. But as for the movie,give it a miss. Jennifer Jason Leigh (whom I loved in The Hitcher and Single White Female) does herself no favours by saying yes to this role. Meg Ryan acts very well. If you're a fan then this movie is good. The ending is abit of a shock but the story is not thrilling, it's not intense, it's worth a miss.

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Summary: Underrated, intense and intimate
Review: A complex story about a mousey teacher(with sexual fire crackling just underneath)who lives nearby a gruesome murder scene, finding the police investigator on the case attractive and yet dangerously suspicious. Director Jane Campion pretty much whittles away at all the obvious elements of a psycho-sexual murder drama, leaving a messy, unformed, but intriguing film behind. For once, it doesn't rest on the performances alone; you feel Campion's stylish pull from the outset, and although the plot ends up feeling a little unfulfilled, the creepy class of the whole thing entices. **1/2 from ****

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Summary: YEAH YOUR RIGHT IT DOSENT CUT IT.THEY CUT OUT all the SCENSE
Review: NO GOOD ACTION!!!!!!!!!!! LOL


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Summary: Boring and incoherent
Review: My mother let me borrow this DVD, since I was bored and needed some new movies to watch. I am sad I watched this sad excuse for a movie. It has absolutely no value whatsoever. I had never heard of this movie, and I will be trying very hard to forget it. And that is unfortunate, because this is one of the worse movies I've seen in a very long time.

Basically, the story revolves around a woman named Frannie, who teach high school english. Her character is very boring and very unappealing. She has not even the slightest drop of personality. You don't quite know whats on her mind, or what is her motivation for even existing. Overall, she is a very forgetable character.

About 30 minutes into the insomnia killing movie, we find a young detective by the name of Malloy. He is investigating a murder, which adds a(very little) plot dimension to this movie. Apparenly there is a man, with the same tatoo as Malloy, who killed a woman. Of course, the plot is SO predictable. But the bad plot is not the worse part of this movie.

Apparently the movie is meant to emphasise the relationship with Malloy and Frannie. This relationship is based off of nothhing, no logic, no real emotions, it is just some ad hoc relationship meant to appease a more shallow audience. I am old enough to buy porno, so I don't care about seeing a naked Meg Ryan in an R-rated movie. I buy movies for great character devlopements or a great plot. This movie has neither.

The problem is that Malloy is very unappealing. This makes Stiffler from American Pie, look like a feminist sypathizer. Yes, this guy is foul mouthed, obnoxious, and plain stupid. I am almost amazed that alot of women reviewers find this guy appealing. Did I miss something here? I thought this was the type of guys women didn't like. Well trying to make sense of women is alot like trying to find something good about this movie. It will probably never happen.

Pass this crap up. This is the worst movie I've seen in the last 10 years. I promptly returned this movie to my mother the next day. 1 star.

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Summary: What was Jane Campion thinking?
Review: This was one of the least engaging films I have ever seen, and easily the one of the most tedious.

I've never experienced time pass as slowly as it did while I was watching this film.

I did not care about the characters, I did not care "whodunit," I did not care about any of it. Never in my experience have so many talented actors delivered so much lackluster dialogue about nothing in order to further the lifeless plot of a dreary story.

Mark Ruffalo was boring, Jennifer Jason Leigh was boring, Meg Ryan and her full frontal nudity were boring...even the sex was boring.

I like Jane Campion, but this film was a disaster. What was she thinking?

Well, at least the cinematography was exquisite.

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Summary: IN THE CRAPPER, IT SHOULD BE CALLED!
Review: I watched 20 minutes of this bomb,
and then shut it off! The acting sucks,
the story is just as bad, I'm surprised,
Meg Ryan was in such a crappy film.
(HIGHLY UNRECOMMENDED!)

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Summary: The Worst Film in Years!!!!
Review: If I could give this film zero stars, I would do it without hesitation.

"In the Cut" is unoriginal, unintelligent, and disgusting.

In a quest to prove that she is more than just America's sweetheart, Meg Ryan fails miserably as Frannie, a character that you just care nothing about.

The usually terrific Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Jason Leigh are suprisingly limp as Frannie's cop boyfriend and beloved sister, respectively.

How could Jane Campion, who brought us such masterpieces as "The Piano", "An Angel at my Table", and "Holy Smoke", make such a steaming piece of crap?
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Stay away at all costs!

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Summary: Sneaker wave..
Review: The first time I watched this film, I thought it was just "Okay". But, for some reason, I was compelled to watch it again. I found the movie, at once, mediocre and incredibly good, as if that makes any sense. The actors all did such a superb job, as did director Jane Campion and the rest of the crew. I absolutely HATED Meg Ryan's character, which means she definitely did a good job. Both Ryan and Mark Ruffalo really put themselves out there on this one - I admire their courage for doing that. I have actually purchased the book and hope it will answer some questions for me. Clearly, I'm not a professional film reviewer, but wanted to give my thoughts on this project.