This thriller seems most interested in lingering over battered and bloodied male faces.
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Twisted (2004)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:0
Rotten:35
Average Rating:3.1/10
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
Top CriticThe outdated, cliche-riddled direction is so inept and indifferent that it’s hard to believe Twisted was lensed by the same Philip Kaufman who made The Right Stuff.
03/11/04
Top CriticA suspense thriller without thrills or suspense.
03/09/04
Top CriticJudd is let down by Twisted because tearful, confused victim doesn't come naturally to her; she's not fun to watch suffer if you can't see her calculating the payback.
03/01/04
Top CriticThis movie plays like they were reading [Roger Ebert's] little movie glossary and they took every cliche in there.
03/01/04
Top CriticGives new meaning to the word 'obvious.'
02/27/04
Top CriticA nasty, formulaic and unforgivably obvious procedural.
02/27/04
Top CriticPhilip Kaufman's Twisted amalgamates the basic post-feminist woman-cop premises of Silence Of The Lambs and the Prime Suspect TV series so torpidly it feels less like entertainment than a community service sentence.
02/27/04
Top CriticIt begins pretty, and ends up ugly.
02/27/04
Top CriticA chill-deficient suspense flick that shares too much common ominous ground with [Judd's] past thrillers.
02/27/04
Top CriticUtterly devoid of suspense, energy or credibility.
02/27/04
Top CriticWe can only regret that this is the kind of script [Kaufman's] being offered these days. Now, that's twisted.
02/27/04
Top CriticIt's always rather sad to watch gifted performers stranded in a tepid thriller.
02/27/04
Top CriticAs titles go, Twisted doesn't go quite far enough. Convoluted might have been better. Stretched also would have worked. Ridiculous would be most appropriate.
02/27/04
Top CriticThe script is credited to Sarah Thorp but has all the hallmarks of one of those screenplays that has gotten worse with every rewrite.
02/27/04
Top CriticAnother thriller. Another plot full of holes. Another waste of time.
02/27/04
Top CriticThe 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 CriticWalks like a thriller and talks like a thriller, but it squawks like a turkey.
02/27/04
Top CriticTwisted 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 CriticHard-hitting police thrillers need a smidgen of authenticity, but Sarah Thorp's script is riddled with implausible events, inconsistent characters and head-scratching twists that don't add up.
02/26/04
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