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
The Blackout (2001)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:0
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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Reviews for The Blackout
Ferrara ... proves incapable of making distinctions between his inspired and indulgent impulses.
With vacuous dialogue and little sense of character or direction, it oozes from one amateurishly conceived scene to the next.
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