Lang's dramatic pacing is sluggish and dull.
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10/15/01
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The Monkey's Mask (2001)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:13
Rotten:17
Average Rating:5.2/10
Theatrical Release:Jul 27, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: Jill (Susie Porter) is a twentysomething private investigator called up by a pair of distraught parents to find their missing daughter. The trail of the missing girl, an amateur poet, leads lesbian... [More]
Starring: Kelly McGillis, Susie Porter, Marton Csokas, Abbie Cornish
Director: Samantha Lang
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Reviews for The Monkey's Mask
...a brilliantly modern homage to everything that was great about the golden era of gritty gumshoe flicks.
08/24/01
Susie Porter delivers another smashing performance.
07/27/01
Wary, conflicted, gutsy, and simpatico, [Lang'd] make a fine series character.
12/14/01
Top CriticLooks slick on the surface, but underneath is a plot so tangled, frayed and silly it's about as suspenseful as the Keystone Cops.
08/24/01
An essentially conventional whodunit, if one with a rather unconventional sleuth at its center.
07/27/01
It might be dressed up differently, but Monkey's is still a good, old-fashioned murder mystery.
07/20/01
Top CriticPoetry, lesbian sex and murder might be a killer combination if a deadly pace weren't included in the mix.
08/24/01
Top CriticAn uneasy mix of tired detective-movie clichés and low-key arty pretension.
06/14/02
Top CriticIts central mystery is less intriguing and more predictable than your average game of Clue.
07/27/01
The sex scenes between the women do little to advance the story, but they blessedly distract both Jill and the viewer from the thin narrative.
10/18/01
Top CriticThe film seems dimly aware of its own ridiculousness, but it lacks the constitution for self-mockery.
07/24/01
Top CriticRemarkably sluggish and not particularly suspenseful.
08/27/01
Top CriticPorter brings such buried heartache and old-school moxie to her role that I wish she had her own detective-movie franchise.
08/10/01
In Porter's capable hands, Jill Fitzpatrick's a feisty, vulnerable P.I. deserving of her own movie franchise.
07/26/01
Top CriticDespite a lack of stamina storywise, The Monkey's Mask, director Samantha Lang's risky film noir, weaves a strange spell.
08/10/01
Carries the leaden whiff of the ghosts of thrillers past.
09/27/01
Don't be fooled by the packaging: at the heart of it, it's a pedestrian detective thriller that doesn't have much going for it in terms of originality.
11/18/02
[The film] is about nudity and bad poetry -- really bad poetry. The nudity is in the context of a lesbian affair that's about as convincing as a Playboy photo shoot.
08/26/01
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