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The Blackout (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 9

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Rotten:9

Average Rating: 3.2/10

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Matthew Modine, Claudia Schiffer, Beatrice Dalle, Sarah Lassez

Starring: Matthew Modine, Claudia Schiffer, Beatrice Dalle, Sarah Lassez, Dennis Hopper

Director: Abel Ferrara

Director: Abel Ferrara

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Dizzying visual style can't conceal the shallow, self-indulgent nature of Ferrara's sleazy erotic thriller, one of his worst pictures with a terrible performance by a miscast Matthew Modine at its center

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10/20/07
Emanuel Levy
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Ferrara ... proves incapable of making distinctions between his inspired and indulgent impulses.

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06/18/06
Nick Schager
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05/12/04
Dragan Antulov
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With vacuous dialogue and little sense of character or direction, it oozes from one amateurishly conceived scene to the next.

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03/11/03
Joshua Tanzer
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04/17/02
David Sterritt
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The presentation and the acting make you stop caring.

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02/28/02
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
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Jeremiah Kipp
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