Shelter Island

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Summary: Shelter Island
Review: Boy, has Ally Sheedy ever gotten ugly! She needs teeth whitener! I couldn't stand watching her! The storyline has been done to death except now with lesbians!!! I'm sick of gays being in everything now. We need a new movie rating, so that we don't make the mistake of picking out movies with gays making out in it! I don't mind gays being in movies; I just don't want to see them as couples and making out! The movie was a waste of money to rent and a waste of time to watch. Ally Sheedy and Stephen Baldwin are on the top of my list as worst actors, and I will avoid movies that they are in! This movie doesn't even deserve 1 star, but I was forced to give it one to post this review.

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Summary: Not What I Expected
Review: I expected this movie to be something like the Dead Calm. It was not. See the Dead Calm. That's a must see, suspensful movie. This movie was not and also slow moving. I'm not saying not to watch it. It is interesting, and thank goodness it is a short movie.


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Summary: Ugly, Depressing, Misogynistic & Gratuitously Violent Film
Review: I picked up this movie because I was hungry to see a sexy romantic thriller featuring lesbians. (And if you didn't know, 'good lesbian movie' seems to be a misnomer.)

Anyway, once I popped this DVD in, I quickly discovered that this film was not going to be a sexy lesbian thriller but instead a twisted, misognynistic and homophobic movie, which portrays lesbians as sick, devious and evil people.

Steven Baldwin as usual played a role he now seems perfect for --namely a perverted and murderous miscreant, something that seems to come naturally to him.

Anyway, if you want to see a woman beaten brutually and graphically with a golf club, drowned in the ocean, and then shot in the stomach, this film is for you.

Yes I really HATED this film and was very depressed and demoralized after seeing it. This film deserves a rating of ZERO!!!

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Summary: You'll regret even renting it!
Review: I rented this and was sorry I even did that. Save ONE erotic scene, that honestly, needed to be a lot hotter, this was a waste of my time. I don't mind slow moving films when there's a point to it. There wasn't one. It wasn't suspenseful. It wasn't interesting or engaging. It wasn't original. It took effort just to sit through it. Spare yourself that effort!

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Summary: So-so story with some fairly erotic moments!
Review: I would have enjoyed this film so much more if there was less Stephen Baldwin in it and more Ally Sheedy, Patsy Kensit, and Mimi Langeland. Not that I particularly hate Stephen Baldwin, but I really loved seeing the erotic chemistry between Sheedy and Kensit. Sadly, most of their hottest moments together apparently ended up on the cutting room floor. And that meant this one was less of an erotic thriller and more of a what-the-heck-is-going-on-thriller.

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Summary: not good, but oh so gay!
Review: I'm really offended by the reviewer below who mentioned that they didnt want to see gay people making out and that there should be a warning on movies for this or a differant rating system. Could this comment be anymore homophobic? Gay people watch straight people making out all the time. GET OVER IT!

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Summary: Starring body doubles for Kensit and Sheedy
Review: Whatever happened to Eighth Wonder singer Patsy Kensit after she appeared in the high voltage, high energy thriller `Lethal Weapon 2'? Well, she went on to appear in a number of okay pictures (the acclaimed `Twenty-One' and the sweet romantic comedy `Does This Mean We're Married') and some truly terrible TV-movie-type fodder such as `Kill Cruise.'
Unfortunately, this crass production falls into the latter camp and, despite some good talent and a serviceable script, the movie is betrayed and let down with an overabundance of (blatently obvious) body-double nudity (that would seem more in place in a soft porn production) and a (supposidly) "surprise twist' that is telegraphed early in the movie.
Kensit plays the lesbian girlfriend Alex, to Alley Sheedy's motivational speaker character, who persuades her girlfriend to escape the big city after she is brutally attacked. The two seek the solitude on an island and tension arises with the arrival of an injured man, a violent storm that knocks out the phone lines and ferry services to the mainland and the almost voyeuristic fascination with the girls displayed by the local sheriff.
Kensit was the reason why I picked up this movie, that and the promise of an okay suspense thriller, but her talent is once again squandered in a movie that fails to deliver any real tension.