Twisted - The first suspicion

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Movie
German title Twisted - The first suspicion
Original title Twisted
Country of production Germany , USA
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Philip Kaufman
script Sarah Thorp
production Barry Baeres
Anne Kopelson
Arnold Kopelson
Linne Radmin
music Mark Isham
camera Peter Deming
cut Peter Boyle
occupation

Twisted - The first suspicion (Original title: Twisted ) is a thriller by the director Philip Kaufman from 2004 .

action

Jessica Shepard has been promoted to Homicide Inspector for the San Francisco Police Department. Her first case is a serial killer that she and her colleague Delmarco hunt down. But she realizes that all of the victims are former lovers of hers. She quickly falls into disrepute among her colleagues. Her foster father and superior, John Mills, protects her and strengthens her back. Since she herself has suffered from violent fantasies since a massacre by her father in which he killed her mother and himself, and has been in psychological care since a job-related trauma, she fears that she may be the perpetrator. After the evidence of Jessica as the perpetrator increases, she is arrested and taken out of custody by Mills on bail. After he has directed the suspicion of Delmarco, with whom a love affair has also developed, he wants to resort to vigilante justice. At that moment it becomes clear that it is Mills himself who is responsible not only for the series of murders, but also for the earlier massacre of Jessica's parents, in which Jessica's father was the victim and not the perpetrator. In the end, she can only prevent Delmarco's murder by shooting Mills.

Reviews

The film received almost exclusively negative reviews. On the Rotten Tomatoes website , out of a total of 135 reviews, only two were positive, which corresponds to a rating of 1%.

James Berardinelli described the film on ReelViews as a "D-thriller with A-cast". Director Philip Kaufman does not manage to breathe tension into the "tired" story, the last quarter of an hour of the film even made the critic feel "offended in his intelligence". The “pretty” camera work cannot compensate for the “hollowness” of the script. The portrayal of Ashley Judd moves "on the verge of embarrassment". Andy Garcia and Samuel L. Jackson are no better. Berardinelli also wrote that Twisted could at best surprise those who visit the cinema less often than the dentist.

The lexicon of international films wrote: “The thriller is shaped by the convincing leading actress, but otherwise cannot gain any new facets from the cliché-laden basic constellation. Due to his puritanical perspective, the old-fashioned ideas and unresolved subplots, the conditions of a modern " film noir " are hardly met. "

background

  • A yawara plays an important role in the film. As Yawara a martial art and the stick used in this case are called, who also Kubotan is called and is used for pressure boosting.
  • Almost all of the film was shot on location in San Francisco.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
  2. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  3. ↑ Twisted - The First Suspicion in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on September 28, 2007
  4. ↑ Filming locations for Twisted - The First Suspicion