13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I Have Always Loved This Movie, November 14, 2002
By A Customer
This movie has always been one of my favorites, and I'm happy to see that Fox has finally released it on DVD! Now I can finally throw-out my old, worn-out VHS-tape copy.
This movie has a good storyline, and the soundtrack is beautiful, as well as is the area in which it was filmed. A large portion of it was filmed in the breathtaking foothills near Jamestown, CA, and in the former Red Hills Ranch movie town of the same area. (You might recognize the town in this film as the same movie town also used in Back To The Future, Part III). Anyway, just enjoy this movie for what it is... an interesting storyline, with a great soundtrack, but where the women are the ones who prove to all that they can take care of themselves, when the situation warrants. A very enjoyable flick, and definitely a keeper!
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
What's not to like?, September 5, 2005
This review is from: Bad Girls (Extended Cut) (DVD)
This movie does not pretend to be a serious effort in film making. It's a funny, not so serious movie that's eye and mind candy. Think of it as Charlie's Angels set in the 1870's. Madaline Stowe, Andie McDowell, Drew Barrymore play whores that are run out of one town and are trying to make their way to another. Along the way they run into Stowe's ex boyfriend who was not so kind to her before and even worse now. It's escapist fun and I recommend it heartily.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
This movie could of been way better., February 15, 2007
This review is from: Bad Girls (Extended Cut) (DVD)
I've seen this movie a couple of times over the years and thought it was decent. Like Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Bad Girls begins with the abuse of a prostitute whose vengeance sets the whole plot in motion. But in Bad Girls, plot development is synonymous with costume changes. Chaps, corsets, silks and flannel -- for women on the run who carry no baggage other than their historical baggage as former prostitutes, these four desperadoes scam more new outfits than a bevy of runway models. And at least one of them had to be packing a curling iron. But, okay, this is Hollywood after all, and what's the point of having four women starring in a movie if they don't at least look good, albeit illogical.
The really grievous problems with Bad Girls are its lack of plot and undeveloped characters. On the lam after the most trigger-happy of the bunch, Madeleine Stowe, kills a customer who's roughing up one of the other girls in the brothel, they have very little sense of purpose once they're on their own. With a vague plan of heading toward the Oregon Territory to run a sawmill, Bad Girls moves forward in episodic fashion as they encounter one difficulty (or love interest) after another. You can practically picture it as a weekly TV series that poses hour-long detours on the road to the elusive Oregon Territory. The barrenness of the plot would be less noticeable; however, if there were at least some solid characters to hang the story on. Stowe nicely plays the sternness of her character against the delicacy of her features but even her tough-gal posture is belittled when she is whipped by one man and rescued by another. Masterson, considering her range as an actress of intelligence and physical dexterity, is given surprisingly little to do. As for the others, MacDowell flirts and Barrymore pouts, though each does what she does very well.
The Cinematography is respectable, as is the directing for what the shooting schedule allowed. Not an extraordinary film, but one that entertains on one level. That and the sexual component really didn't need the exposure it received in this film. In other words it couldve been handled more tastefully, or axed altogether.
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