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Color of Night

Color of Night

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Color of Night is Murky.
Review: A thriller that is highlighted only by the sensual heat of actress Jane March. The rest is awful. Early on in the film, the average movie goer can all ready pick out Jane March as one of Bruce Willis' group psych therapy patients disguised as a man. Therefore, we know right off the bat that she's behind all the evil going on. Leslie Ann Warren and Scott Bakula are wasted talents and it deserved its nomination of one of the worst films of 1994.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Rocks the house!
Review: Before reading further, you should know that I consider myself a B-movie connoisseur. That being said, "Color of Night" kicks cheeseball booty. The script is totally off the wall but doesn't take itself seriously. A lot of the acting is god-awful, but some it is actually pretty good (e.g. Bakula and Henriksen.) But most importantly, the trio of Bruce Willis, Scott Bakula, and Lance Henriksen will whip the discerning and unconventional woman into an estrogen frenzy.... Anyway, what more could one ask for?

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Sex, Murder, and Dissociation...
Review: Bruce Willis plays a psychologist who is a psychoanalyst from the behavioralist school. Those with any bit of a psychology background will realize that the behavioralist and psychoanalytic schools are about as similar to each other as sugar is to garlic. The movie is not well thought out or researched on its premesis, characterization, or plot. In the opening scenes, one of Bruce Willis' crazy patients decides it would be fun to over apply her lipstick and give oral sex to the shaft of a gun the day before flinging herself out of Willis' high-rise office window to the oncoming traffic below. Following this incident Willis seeks solace from his friend in L.A who is in charge of a group therapy session for some extremely disturbed individuals. Willis' friend is killed in a brutal murder which leads Willis together with the coercision of an annoying police lieutenant to try and help solve the case by taking over the support group. Jane March plays a woman who, meanwhile, is leading him on one sexual escapade after another. The ending is consistent with the rest of the movie in that it is entirely unbelievable.

Crazy James

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A hilarious Scooby Doo rip off
Review: This movie is great. I do not know if I should give it one star or five. It is one funny movie which ranks top of my list of best/worst movies with "Battlefield Earth". Watch it with friends and beer(lots of the latter is preferable)and be sure to be totally wasted by the end of the movie as the Scooby Doo conclusion will make you pee on yourself with laughter.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fantastic and Completely Misunderstood
Review: This one is a jaw dropper and quite the cinematic cocktail. If you are expecting Vertigo or even Fatal Attraction you are hopping the wrong train. This is pure goofball entertainment. The sex scenes are fun(Thank you, Ms.March),the violence is over the top(conceptually cribbed from Italian giallo, no doubt), the dialogue is inane(beautifully so, I think), and the plot and its many twists are plenty outrageous(as in, "oh, come on...WHAT?"). Did I mention the supporting cast? All of your favorite "whatsis names" get a chance to chew the celluloid in an attempt to "out crazy" their costars(BTW, Brad Dourif wins-AGAIN). This is a delirious, trashy, Hollywood mutant of a movie surely deserving of a devoted cult all its own.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fine "erotic" thriller
Review: A good, star-studded film, always underrated. In the line of Basic Instinct. A bit too lengthy (2+ hrs. long). The psychiatric analysis sections are long and overemphasized (well they want to give us a clear snap shot of every suspect.)

Bruce Willis's performance is good though not great. This is his pre-Sixth Sense day. Surprise to see he became comfortable with nudity in the line of Harvey Keitel.

Jane March is always my favorite actress. Even though I cannot say her acting is top-notch, her sensuality and screen appearance are just fantastic. Jane's triple role of Richie/Bonnie/Rose is exceptionally performed. Her performance at the film conclusion can move you to tears.

The music is great. With the movie Lauren Christy is dragged down to obscurity even though she deserves more than that. Color of the Night is a great song to cherish in the line of John Barry's Somewhere in Time.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: so bad, i had to review it twice
Review: Hmmm. Willis/Warren/Bakula/Henricksen: great actors...could've been an excellent movie...if it weren't for the script, the score and one horrible casting choice. I wish I could say that this was at least a guilty pleasure but, I can't. In order for it to qualify as a guilty pleasure, it would have had to have been laughable. But, we're being begged to take this silly movie seriously (just listen to the clawingly sappy score.) They could've achieved laughable by recasting the entire movie so that all of the actor's were of the same caliber as Jane March...and normally, I wouldn't stoop to attacking someone's looks but, since I can't see how else she would've gotten this role, I will...How DO all those teeth fit in her head anyway? Two words: Freddie Mercury.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: EVERY CLICHE IN THE BOOK
Review: from the first scene where the woman smears her lipstick on her mouth and then fellates the barrel of a gun, i knew what i was in for. the movie proceeded to only get worse. each patient in the therapy group was like a charicature of his or her illness. bruce willis has made lots of bad movies, but this one takes the cake. i agree with the dude who wondered how those teeth could stay in jane march's head. maybe if freddie mercury were in the movie it could have been saved.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I loved it!
Review: I steered away from this movie when it was released because of all the bad reviews, but caught it on cable last night and loved it! Sure, there were a few things that were obvious from the beginning to the viewer that should have been obvious to the characters, but what the hey! I found it both suspenseful and erotic. Bruce Willis was a pleasure for the eyes and the mind. And it had that staple of any good movie to me--you really couldn't guess what was going to happen next. I did think the therapy group was a little over-the-top in their behavior, but that only added to the entertaining drama.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Preposterously bad.
Review: Color of Night is an erotic thriller that's inept in almost every regard. For those looking for something worthwhile to mention in this movie, the only two good things I can say is that Jane March is very good-looking and she can simulate an orgasm quite well. Everything else is silly and overblown. There's a plot twist at the end, but it's a bit predictable, and is more unpleasant than anything else when you think about it.


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