It's all perfectly rote and only occasionally satisfying.
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02/27/04
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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
It begins pretty, and ends up ugly.
02/27/04
Top CriticThe actors are far too good for the silly script; plot rabbits are pulled from its hat with absurd ease, and harbor seals drop in as shamelessly applied local color.
02/27/04
Even Freud would find Twisted's connect-the-dots fixation on sex and death overwrought.
02/27/04
This is not just a bad movie, it's depressingly bad -- one of these wasteful, lazy Hollywood throwaways that offer further proof that the industry has way more money than ideas.
02/27/04
The film is too simple to hold our interest for nearly two hours.
02/27/04
A 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 CriticBearable but hardly riveting.
02/27/04
This loopy movie is so screamingly awful it should hit your local video store's markdown bin sometime next month.
02/27/04
Judd, Jackson and Garcia are all talented actors, so it's a mystery why they'd be attracted to Sarah Thorp's clunky, contrived script.
02/27/04
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
Not only have we seen Twisted many times before, we've seen Ashley Judd in Twisted many times before.
02/27/04
This is the kind of erotic thriller that gives the genre such a bad name.
02/27/04
It's always rather sad to watch gifted performers stranded in a tepid thriller.
02/27/04
As 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
The 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
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