Last Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to attend my first movie in about a month: Twisted, which is very different from Taking Lives.
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It’s Ashley! No, It’s Angelina! Think Angelina Jolie’s upcoming Taking Lives sounds a lot like Ashley Judd’s Twisted? Well, you’re wrong. There are several big differences…
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Angelina Jolie’s character is an unusually observant, successful FBI agent who wakes up in bed with a bloody live body, is always staring at photos of dead people she doesn’t know , has an older male mentor who’s Quebecois and has a psychopath tell her she’s just like him over the phone.
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Ashley Judd’s character is an unusually observant, successful homicide detective who wakes up in bed with a bloody dead body, is always staring at photos of dead people she knows, has an older male mentor who’s American and has a psychopath tell her she’s just like him face to face.
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As you can see, the movies are COMPLETELY different (note to self: find a way to express sarcasm in text more efficientl… oops).
Despite this factor, I plan on seeing Taking Lives also, because it has Keifer Sutherland in it, and he just kicks ass. But back to how good Twisted is. It’s a real psychological thriller that keeps you guessing right up to the big revelation. See, Judd gets promoted to homicide at the beginning of the film, when all of a sudden, they wind up with a dead body who was beaten to death then tossed out into the San Fran Bay. He was beaten to death by a handheld wooden object used in some Eastern exercise (I missed the name). They think it’s a serial killer because there is a cigarette burn on the back of his hand, the killer’s signature. And they’re right. Soon, they’re left with three dead males, all of whom had sex with Judd, who has psychiatric problems because her father was a serial killer, who also killed her mom and himself as his last act (she was cheating on him). Every night, she goes home, drinks a peculiar bottle of wine and blacks out. This leads to the possibility of her having a repressed killer in her mind that takes over when she blacks out. But it gets better. There’s her crazy ex-boyfriend, her lonely but friendly partner, and the police commissioner who all look guilty at one point or another. But if you want to know who it is, you’ll have to see it for yourself. Which I highly recommend you do. That is, if you like psychological thrillers. Or if you just want to see Ashley Judd have sex. Doesn’t matter to me.