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
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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
Director: Abel Ferrara
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Top CriticFerrara ... proves incapable of making distinctions between his inspired and indulgent impulses.
06/18/06
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05/12/04
With vacuous dialogue and little sense of character or direction, it oozes from one amateurishly conceived scene to the next.
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04/17/02
The presentation and the acting make you stop caring.
02/28/02
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