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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:35
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A seemingly virtuous high school guidance counselor, Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon), is accused of raping students Kelly (Denise Richards) and Suzie (Neve Campbell). Ken Bowden (Bill Murray), an... [More]
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Denise Richards
Director: John McNaughton
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Good, trashy fun, with gratuitous sex and nudity, a ludicrous (in a so-bad-it's-funny way) performance by Denise Richards, and an implausible noir plot that keeps you in the dark until the final credits. The ultimate guilty pleasure.
The movie is a lot like a jigsaw puzzle in which all the pieces fit, but you don't know exactly what you're looking at until the very last piece is in place.
It never tries to pass itself off as art, just pure vulgar entertainment.
Brainless and trashy in the extreme, it's also the most canny fun to be had in a while, if you're partial to a swampside Cheez-Whiz nosh.
Wild Things plays like a long Twilight Zone episode with a thick Everglades breeze to it. READ ON (DVD)->
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This tale of revenge does manage to sidestep cliches and predictability found in this genre, but it goes too far out of the lines to be appreciated.
Far be it from me to say it's no fun to watch a movie that so doggedly avoids any hint of redeeming value.
What I'm supposed to find 'satisfying' is predicated on the idea that almost everyone in the world is trash.
Top CriticIt's like a three-way collision between a softcore sex film, a soap opera and a B-grade noir. I liked it.
Top Critic...even though the action is spiced up with kinky sex, a quick flash of male frontal nudity and long, lingering shots of voluptuous girls in skimpy clothes, there's a peculiar lifelessness about the whole affair.
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I heartily recommend Wild Things for its fits of teasing and eroticism (rare in American cinema) and for Bill Murray who has a great role as Lombardo's attorney.
A fun movie about a community of people with larceny in their hearts, which delivers humor, some whodunit mystery, and quite a few samples of good-old trashy dialogue.
What “Titanic” supplied for female teens, “Wild Things” will supply for their male counterparts.
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An extremely self-conscious attempt to make Body Heat for the Scream set, the movie is so utterly repellent and so stupidly manipulative that it makes TV's Melrose Place look like Masterpiece Theater.
Director John McNaughton has some sly fun with the noir genre in this sex-drenched tale of two young vixens (Neve Campbell and Denise Richards) who accuse their high school guidance counselor (Matt Dillon) of rape and begin unwinding plots within plots.
Top CriticMcNaughton, (Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer) knows a thing or two about irony and murderous tendencies, and this is as glossy and flashy and fun as they come.
...Bacon's pork sword alone is not worth the price of admission.
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