KISS THE GIRLS
Rated R - Running time: 2:00 - Released 10/3/97
Author's Note: This is one of the ten movie reviews
I wrote for the October 30, 1997 issue of The Republican,
the first week my reviews were ever published there. Because of
space and time requirements, these ten reviews had to be especially
brief, some even shorter than this Author's Note. Someday I will
re-view them and re-review them so as to provide a more in-depth
commentary, but for now you'll just have to live with the short
version. Sorry. --JRM
Well, folks, sheep-cloning
is continuing at full tilt. This taut psychological drama wants
to be Silence of the Lambs, but unfortunately, no Anthony
Hopkins. It is quite tense at times, though, and contains an adequate
performance by Ashley Judd as a young woman abducted by a psycho
and kept as a sex slave in his underground dungeon in the woods
of North Carolina. Morgan Freeman is a detective whose niece is
another of the numerous victims, and when Judd escapes, she helps
Freeman solve the case. Freeman delivers an impeccable performance
as the"wise old man" — you know, the same one he
does in all his films — and Cary Elwes is also good as the
detective, though his N.C. accent stinks. One thing that seems
unnecessary are the ridiculously overdramatic sound effects (you
hear a loud, sinister thud every time someone blinks), but generally
a good, sweaty thriller about man's darker side. ****
Copyright
1997 by John R. McEwen and The
Republican
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