Very underated movie
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cuttingedgenyc — 20 years ago(January 06, 2006 10:15 PM)
I really don't get all the hate. I thought there was some excellent acting by everyone other than Judd; a very good cast; a very decent, intersting, noir-esque script, and some beautiful shots of San Francisco And a good ending chosen out of 4 or 5 ways this movie could have gone.
There's a reason this movie was shown in the Noir City Film Festival - it's a certain style of movie for a particular taste (film noir fans). If you like that style, you will probably agree it was executed decently and is worth watching, though of course not up to some higher standards set by similar movies. -
Gheelnory — 12 years ago(May 14, 2013 04:40 PM)
cuttingedgenyc wrote:
I really don't get all the hate.
Notice that many of the negative comments are quite generic (indicting the acting and the screenplay without giving any real specifics).
I'm going to venture a guess: I suspect many viewers were repelled and offended by the very element of this movie I found most refreshing: the depiction of a female protagonist who has sex whenever she wants to, with whatever consenting adult she wants to
and yet is NOT punished for this in the end.
(The character certainly goes through a lot in the course of the film, but she is never explicitly scolded/humiliated/put in her 'place' for the sex.)
I think this freaks some people out. Some don't mind admitting it (thus the posts calling the character a "whore"). Many others either wouldn't care to admit it, or aren't even aware of how disturbed they are by this violation of traditional gender roles; these people find other reasons to cite for hating the movie (such as 'bad acting' or 'lousy screenplay').
This said, I'm not defending this movie as being in the top ranks of cinema. I thought Judd was very good in her role, and the rest of the movie's elements were professional and competent. But for me the movie's greatest flaw was the casting of Samuel L. Jacksonwho simply would
not
have accepted a role as Warm and Supportive Father-Figure in a noir of this kind. His casting destroyed all suspense in this movie.
But nevertheless, I enjoyed the movie for its cheeky subversion of convention. The Bad Woman was NOT punished for liking sex. That's
very
unusual. -
Matthew T. Dalldorf — 2 months ago(January 16, 2026 06:30 AM)
Judd is a good cop who only wants to keep us safe my beating up handcuffed suspects, but the demonic liberal lawyer wants to hamper her with such evil incantations as Due Process and Civil Rights!
It's the usual propaganda for state sanctioned violence. The kind of thing real life prosecutors will watch as a porno.