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Release Date: 15 March, 2002 Retail Price: $29.99 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: Complete Cast (6 total) |
The Monkey's Mask Reviews
No Evidence Just A Smell Of Sex And Violence!
Jill Fitzpatrick (Susie Porter), private eye, is hired by the parents of Mickey, a young poet, to find their missing daughter. The daughter turns up dead, and meanwhile Jill has become passionately involved with femme fatale Diana (Kelly McGillis), Mickey's poetry teacher. Jill splits her time between encounters with Diana (whose husband creepily supports the affair) and trying to find Jill's killer. The killer, however, has other ideas.
The film spends much time poking fun at some of modern poetry's more egregious pretensions, but unfortunately is guilty of many of the same crimes. It is often too elliptical for its own good, and leaves us with the impression that Jill is massively incompetent: we are to believe, it seems, that she only watches a crucial evidence tape in bits and pieces. McGillis is good as Diana, but towers a good foot over Porter, making our PI seem much more waif than butch, pseudo-hardboiled narration notwithstanding.
Not much here for special features. There's a trailer, and the menu plays a short bit of music through once.
Put this down to a nice try. Interesting, but not completely successful. It has things to say about poetry, dangerous sex games, and murder, but doesn't tie all three together as well as it should. And we need a much more convincingly tough PI.
Painful Dialogue, Predictable and Slow
What a mess of a movie that likely had good intentions at the start..The dialogue is painful and cliche, the movie is slooow, the story predictable...an average mystery (thus makes it somewhat worth seeing...as was the organization of the film, though too sloow), it has an underlying lesbian theme, but the women had no chemistry,zero, had it not been that their clothes were off, you'd think they were just aquaintances....I don't reccommend this film too highly..friends came over my home and saw it, and were dissappointed as I was to show it (I warned them) It was nice to see Kelly McGillis playing the bisexual predator english professor, every young coed's fantasy..but even McGillis was held hostage by the material, primarily the screenplay...
Best to rent..
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