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starring: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn, Russell Wongdirected by: Philip Kaufman
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781415700389
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 1415700389
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: August 31, 2004
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 32609
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: February 27, 2004
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
With a tawdry plot and a short list of suspects, Twisted gives armchair detectives an easy chance to figure out whodunit. Critics roasted this pulpy potboiler, in which Ashley Judd (attempting to repeat the thriller success she had with Double Jeopardy and High Crimes) plays a San Francisco homicide detective who is her own prime suspect in an ongoing serial murder case, in which all of the victims are men she recently slept with. These one-night stands, and a problem with alcoholic blackouts, make Judd's wine-drinking character the loose cannon on the case, and her partner (Andy Garcia) and police commissioner mentor (Samuel L. Jackson) have their own reasons for wanting the case to close. Apparently nobody bothered to point out numerous weaknesses in Sarah Thorp's B-movie screenplay, and with no apparent interest in the proceedings, director Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff) allows Judd to look silly, Garcia to overact, and the whole movie to unfold in murky darkness and dimly lit rooms. Kaufman, Judd, and her costars are capable of better. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - So inept, it's ALMOST intriguing...
TERRIBLE script with no thrills AT ALL, and a "least likely suspect" you see coming a mile away (since there are only three principal characters in the movie.) Ashley Judd is, at best, mis-cast, playing a hard-bitten SF cop like she was auditioning for the New Mouskateers. An utterly mediocre movie by a good director - the only real mystery.
Rating:  - nice little crime drama/murder mystery
pretty good for the genre.it has suspense,plot twists,a nice
creepy,dark atmosphere.it drop some nice tantalizing clues as to who
the killer may be.Ashley Judd make a real good heroine.she's
certainly credible in he role,as a new homicide inspector with a more
than a little baggage.Sam Jackson is great(once again,as her mentor,as
well as the commissioner.Andy Garcia plays her new partner.he was
OK,but i didn't really feel he completely fit the movie.there was just ... Read More
Rating:  - Old Spy Loves This Movie
I caught the first half of this movie on cable, and rented the DVD to see how it ended. I was enchanted, not just by the three actors (Judd whose latest is De-Lovely; Garcia from the Godfather etc; and Juckson from Pulp Fiction, The Negotiator et al), but by the over-all concept and execution.
Ignore the detractors--this is a superb story ably acted and I loved it. We in the clandestine service are quite proud of having the very highest rate of alcoholism, adultery, divorce, and suicide ... Read More
Rating:  - Plot Twisted
Twisted starts well but gets looser when it should get tighter and increasingly improbable just when plot twists should have us wondering how we could have missed the clues. Instead we wonder, did the writer of this screenplay paint himself into a corner so tight that he had to have workers saw off the top of his house and lower a rope to extricate him from his predicament? In this regard Twisted is like No Way Out in which Kevin Costner was out-acted by his uniform. Costner, if you recall, is pulled ... Read More
Rating: - Mediocre thriller
Given its director's status and the stellar cast audiences were entitled to expect a lot more than this movie actually delivers .It is mediocre rather than downright bad and is hampered by a repetitive plot structure ,a scarcity of suspects and too little actual action .It is not visceral enough to be strong thriller or cerebral enough to work as a whodunnit.
The setting is San Francisco ,a city where a number of deaths are being reported -men battered to death with cigarette burns to their hands ... Read More
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