Product Details

• Actors: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn, Russell Wong
• Directors: Philip Kaufman
• Writers: Sarah Thorp
• Producers: Anne Kopelson, Arnold Kopelson, Barry Baeres, Cherylanne Martin, Linne Radmin
• Format: Full Screen, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Italian, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: August 31, 2004
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00029RT9O
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,609 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Twisted (Full Screen Edition)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No progress toward wellness for sick puppy Ashley Judd, November 14, 2004

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Connie Furr (Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Twisted (Special Collector's Edition) (DVD)

Don't watch this. Don't risk having nightmares about Ashley Judd as I've had. Back when she drug all my sensibilities through the mud with EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, I took a small solace in the assurance that a movie couldn't get any worse than that. But now ghastly Ashley has proven me wrong. I think I'd rather see her play an acknowledged serial killer (however much the the movie pussyfoots around in moral ambiguity about it) than see an equally mad woman legitimized as a cop. Yep, a cop. That's what she plays this time. I guess I must admit EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, as vacuous as it is, seduced me somewhat with Ashley's macabre sick puppy persona. It made me really want to see her get better. Something inside me wanted to see her use her talents (which are nothing if not far above her will to make decent movies) to do something really worthwhile and elevating. So guess that is why I threw caution to the wind and went to see TWISTED. But the cop she plays therein never saw a civil liberty that she wasn't fixing to ravenously trample upon. In the opening scenes, she is arresting a suspect. After she has his hands cuffed behind his back and him helplessly onto his knees, she says, "One more thing!" and then kicks him in the nose as hard as she can! Story resolved, or at least it should have been. Time for this cop to go the way of the beaters of Rodney King. We still do believe that Rodney King was wrongly treated, don't we? Apparently not, if even the limited credibility that this movie has usurped is any indication. She goes on being a cop and treated as the movie's hero! But her unrestrained rampage is by no means over. She will become quite understably a suspect in the murders she's investigating. But she will madly assault her colleagues when they sugggest that it is understandable that she's become a suspect. For better or for worse, the movie never suggests any "turn about's fair play" notion. While she's a suspect nobody ever kicks her in the nose. The movie goes on through a supposed resolution that cannot at all dig this lurid misfire out of the hole of its premise. While the original real villain of the movie proved herself villainous from practically the start, but gets to go on to be "vindicated" as a "hero", the "real villain" gets exposed as a villain only in the end. Do yourself a favor and don't bother with this. It is nonsense. Avoid it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars How much money was wasted making this?, June 12, 2005

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Christopher Hivner (Dallastown, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Twisted (Special Collector's Edition) (DVD)

This movie is terrible, all the more given the talent involved. Andy Garcia, Samuel L. Jackson and Ashley Judd all give awful performances which can't really be helped given the horrible dialog they are given to say and the stupid things they are given to do. The plot is Ashley Judd plays an alcoholic cop who sleeps with men she picks up at the local bars. The men she's been with start turning up dead and she is logically the main suspect. In the end it doesn't matter what the movie is about because it's all done so badly.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars so boring, it gets bored with itself, April 2, 2006

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Michael J. Tresca "Talien" (Fairfield, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Twisted (Special Collector's Edition) (DVD)

There are just two rules when you create a thriller with a pretty lead: 1) The lead (the delectable Ashley Judd) had better show some skin. 2) Thou shalt not be boring.

Twisted utterly fails on both counts. Basically, Judd is Jessica Shepard, a messed up cop who specializes in hunting serial killers. She's fond of bedding men she meets at late night bars, because she's self-destructive. Only Jessica looks fabulous all the time, even when she's been on a bender (which is apparently every night). How she maintains her good looks without stinking up the place is just another part of cinema magic.

Jessica is mentored by John Mills (Samuel L. Jackson). For a second there I thought Jackson was going to play an understated version of his usual maniacal self. I was wrong.

Things take a turn for the strange after Jessica discovers that every man she sleeps with is murdered. And she keeps having these weird blackouts every night. The victims wash up on the shore the next day with a single cigarette burn on their hand. Poor Jessica is haunted by her parents' murder/suicide and wonders...since her father went on a mass-murdering spree before he killed himself, could she too have the "serial killer gene"?

Jessica is paired with Mike Delmarco (Andy Garcia), an Italian goomba who is alternately creepy, lecherous, and like everyone else in this ridiculous movie, wants to get into her pants. Mike follows her around an awful lot...could HE be the killer? Or maybe it's the ex-boyfriend cop, Jimmy Schmidt (Mark Pellegrino). Or maybe it's...actually, I figured it out in the first ten minutes.

Being something of a true crime fan, and having read a bit on the subject, this entire premise is absurd. You don't wake up one day and become a serial killer; if anyone actually got a good look at the life of a serial killer, it screams DANGER from day one. Pretty Jessica has none of those problems in her past, except for a vague "suppressed rage" that manifests itself in kinky sex and kicking people in the face. Her cherubic face shows no signs of hardship, and neither does the rest of her. Although the script wants us to believe she's a haggard cop, the camera is only too happy to zoom in on her rear end. Not once, but twice. And it's not a naked rear end either.

So we have a gorgeous female cop who sleeps around, yet there are very few bedroom scenes. We have a serial killer plot that is connected by red herrings (Who is that lady across the street? Why does Jessica fiddle with a cigarette but never light it?). On one hand, the cops are strictly by the book; they make a big deal out of the fact that Jessica kicks a serial killer in the face. On the other hand, nobody pulls Jessica off the case when she's a prime suspect, nor watch her home when the serial killer is obviously following her around.

Neither sleazy or highbrow, gritty or moralistic, Twisted is so boring, it gets bored with itself.