The best film in recent memory shot in San Francisco by a director who actually lives here and knows the lay of the land.
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03/04/04
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Twisted (2004)
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Reviews Counted:131
Fresh:2
Rotten:129
Average Rating:2.9/10
Consensus: An implausible, overheated potboiler that squanders a stellar cast, Twisted is a clichéd, risible whodunit.
Theatrical Release:Feb 27, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $25,047,335
Synopsis: Against the moody, fog-laden backdrop of the San Francisco waterfront, police detective Jessica Shephard (Ashley Judd) becomes embroiled in a darkly personal hunt for a serial killer in this... [More]
Starring: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn
Director: Philip Kaufman
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Reviews for Twisted
Immaculately composed and shot, but riddled with crime-movie cliches, wincingly obvious in its plot twists and rather badly acted.
02/26/04
Ashley Judd and her A-list cast can’t rise above the hackneyed and clichéd dialogue and conventional climax.
02/25/04
An awfully tedious thriller that makes great waste of the talent involved Twisted is awkward, predictable, convoluted and terribly implausible.
02/26/04
The movie seems to have been made almost in spite of the efforts of all involved.
02/26/04
Twisted is just another example of a motion picture that will surprise and delight only those who see movies less frequently than they see their dentist.
02/26/04
Top CriticAshley Judd seems to go out of her way to find hole-riddled women-in-peril B-thrillers. It's as if she's doing everything in her power not to be taken seriously as an actress.
02/26/04
[A] blatantly dumb anti-thriller.
03/01/04
The arrival of such a dud from director Kaufman is a surprise, unless he was looking for any script that would keep him at home shooting in San Francisco.
02/27/04
Top CriticThe film is too simple to hold our interest for nearly two hours.
02/27/04
What the hell was Ashley Judd thinking? I’ve seen better at 3 A.M. on Cinemax.
02/26/04
A pretty lousy movie, which would be offensive were it not safely neutered by its own stupidity.
02/25/04
Top CriticIt's almost inconceivable that the director of this total misfire is Philip Kaufman, the immense talent behind The Right Stuff and Henry & June.
03/03/04
It is sad to see an actress as talented as Ashley Judd repeatedly appearing in these women-in-distress movies.
03/27/04
Anybody who doesn't feel like they've seen this movie at least three times already, raise your hand.
03/03/04
Twisted is eerily similar in its story line to In the Cut, the much pasted Meg Ryan sex-and-death thriller that came out last year. Only it's worse.
02/27/04
Top CriticThere are so many diversions at work here that the film becomes a joke, one that culminates with a hokey punch line as the antagonist spills out an elaborate confession that partly patches up any holes in the outrageous plot.
03/01/04
Twisted is so bad I'm embarrassed to have seen it and therefore am a bit ashamed to write even an unkind review.
07/02/06
A complete jumble of a movie that could have a talking albino gnu wander into the last frame and not make any less sense
02/27/04
A stylish but clumsy crime psychodrama.
02/26/04
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