One of the dopier films to emerge from the serial-killer genre.
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03/02/04
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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
With Ashley Judd above the title, no cookie-cutter contrivance is unaccounted for, no performance betraying the hint of any effort beyond showing up on the set.
03/02/04
Judd 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
[A] blatantly dumb anti-thriller.
03/01/04
Serious thrill seekers...stay away.
03/01/04
There 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
As drama, [it's] ludicrous. But as a satire on absurd police procedures in the movies, it’s brilliant...
03/01/04
This movie plays like they were reading [Roger Ebert's] little movie glossary and they took every cliche in there.
03/01/04
Top CriticTwisted” loses itself to its own insanity.
02/29/04
...generic and hysterical hackwork...utterly tepid and inconsequential...an unoriginal and flavorless suspense piece that’s shunning more than shocking
02/28/04
'Twisted,' a psychological thriller with little psychology and fewer thrills, is almost worth watching because of its trio of charismatic stars.
02/28/04
The direction is so ham-fisted you almost expect Porky the Pig to have a cameo.
02/28/04
Judd kicks a man in the crotch within four minutes of the film's beginning. I believe the purpose of all Ashley Judd movies is to allow her to kick a man in the crotch.
02/28/04
The downright wackiest, most laughable thriller to come down the pike so far this millennium.
02/27/04
Kaufman's keen eye cannot override the simple fact that the story and the characters are generic and the ultimate twist really isn't much of one.
02/27/04
Gives new meaning to the word 'obvious.'
02/27/04
Top CriticA nasty, formulaic and unforgivably obvious procedural.
02/27/04
Dumb and shabby.
02/27/04
Philip 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 CriticTwisted, despite managing tiny, sad bursts of suspense, is barely worth the energy it will take to mock it.
02/27/04
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