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Streets of Blood (2009)
Training Day Failure
Awful movie about a bunch of idiotic trigger happy cops in New Orleans, has very little point or direction to it, and tries to lure people into watching it by featuring some big named stars (albeit washed up ones). Sharon Stone, Val Kilmer and Michael Biehn make a wage, and 50 cent proves once again that he can't act. Stone looks good for a woman in her 50s but really shows how far she has fallen from being A list material with this direct-to-video mess. Same can be said of Kilmer I suppose. Maybe worthy of a bunch of ten year olds who like to watch mindless gory violence and have little comprehension of plot lines and script. Idiotic and absurd, a true waste of time. Shows how far modern movies have fallen.
The Monkey's Mask (2000)
waste of time
Just did not like this movie, or anything about it. I don't mean to be rude but Susie Porter is utterly miscast and completely unbelievable as a "private detective" (c'mon). She is also physically repulsive (makes me wonder how she ever made it in acting) literally hard to watch on film.
Mcgillis' acting performance (and looks) are slightly better but I think in truth she made this film just to be controversial and maybe revive her dying career. Sex scenes are also poor and the films climax plain lame. A movie just full of ugly lesbians and no backbone.
Give it a miss!!
Basic Instinct (1992)
King of all erotic thrillers!
If you haven't heard of Basic Instinct, you were sick or dead for the past 20 years. This was and still is in my opinion the benchmark for all erotic thrillers. Paul Verhoeven gets this sexy, edge of your seat thriller bang on the mark with his slick directing and Joe Ezterhaz' script summed up what movies in the early 90s aimed to achieve.... shock, awe and excitement.
Mchael Douglas is perfectly cast as Nick, the "burnt out cop whose best friend is the bottle" character we all know too well. His character has a real believable edge to it though as he struggles with his demons as a disgraced police detective put in charge of a murder investigation involving sex and murder. Prime suspect is the beautiful and sexy Catherine Tramell, played perfectly by Sharon Stone. In the role that made her, she exudes the kind of sexual energy (the interrogation scene) that no man could resist and this is what makes her character so interesting.
As the movie progresses, so to does the attraction from Nick towards Catherine and Catherine who is a novelist begins to manipulate Nick to her own ends. The chemistry between Douglas and Stone is palpable and the movie has an enormous erotic charge with a real hint of danger to it which adds to the excitement.
Sharon Stone is the main reason to watch this movie, she is beautiful, dangerous, cold, calculated, intelligent and completely sexy. But is she the killer? More suspects surface as the plot thickens. There is also a sort of ambiguity to the film that is in someways what makes it more dark and mysterious.
Much was made of the sex scenes when the movie was originally released and I would just comment that they are very well done and have an animalistic charge, which is indeed what the movie is all about. When the attraction between Douglas and Stones characters comes to a height we get the most erotic and sexually raw encounter I have come across in this kind of genre.
Other performances of note are that of the lovely Jeanne Tripplehorne (Beth) who is more than just counselling Nick, the beautiful Leillani Sarelle (Roxy) who is Catherines lesbian lover with her own "skeletons in the closet" and George Dzundza (Gus) Nicks police partner and only real friend.
I would just say that they don't make em like they used to and Basic Instinct is testament to that opinion. A lot of twists, turns, mind games, sex and violence is what constitutes this thrill ride with a brilliant music score and sensual nightclub tracks too boot! It turned out to spawn a lot of inferior but similar movies in its wake through the 90s, but this is one you have to watch if you like erotic thrillers. Make sure to get the unrated version. 10/10.
Body of Evidence (1992)
Sexy!
In this raunchy thriller, Madonna is suspected of murdering her elderly partner using her sexy body (lucky guy). After she is accused of such a "crime" the lawyer she chooses to represent her is Willem defoe.
OK, so it is not the most plausible plot line but this movie can still be enjoyed, not least for Madonnas hot body in numerous steamy scenes which although often criticised I found to be very well done and quite erotic. It is true that Madonna and her body are the main reason to watch this thriller but there are some decent genuine performances by defoe and mantegna battling it out in the court room and Anne Archer as the deceased' embittered ex. Julianne Moore is also in there in a small role as Franks (defoes) wife.
Bottom line! if you like 80/90s sex films then this is a definitely worth watching. Also make sure to get the unrated version as there is a lot more to see in there.