"Just awful enough to qualify as someone's guilty pleasure, this convoluted thriller was supposed to cash in on the supposedly sexy teaming of Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone (then hot from her ample exposure in Basic Instinct), but their naked groping in a shower provides one of the film's unintentionally funny highlights. Ray Quick (Stallone) is a former CIA bomb expert whose former colleague (James Woods) is now in cahoots with a ..."
""Lyle Carter gehört als erfolgreicher Pferdezüchter zu den angesehensten Bürgern Kentuckys. Der Verkauf des Zuchthengstes "Simpatico" soll die Krönung seine erfolgreichen Lebens werdens. Die Verträge liegen bereits zur Unterschrift bereit, als Carter ein Anruf aus Kalifornien erreicht. An der Strippe ist Vinnie Webb, ein mittlerweile verwahrloster Weggefährter aus früheren Tagen. Vor zwanzig Jahren waren sie gemeinsam in einem groß ange ..."
"Wehe, wenn sie wütend wird - denn dann wächst Nancy über sich hinaus und mutiert zu einer 20-Meter-Frau, die nicht nur ihren treulosen Ehemann Harry und ihren autoritären Vater, sondern eine ganze Stadt in Panik versetzt. Ihre Super-Frauenpower verdankt Nancy einer Begegnung mit einem Ufo - und sie benutzt sie in den verrücktesten Situationen, um Harry, den sie noch immer liebt, zurückzugewinnen."
"Diabolisch ist Jeremiah Chechiks aufpolierte 1996er Version des französischen Film-Noir-Originals aus dem Jahre 1955, Les diaboliques (Die Teuflischen), in dem sich zwei Lehrerinnen einer Knabenschule anschicken, den Direktor zu töten. Die Drei bilden eine Dreiecksbeziehung aus Rache und Betrug, aus der sich schließlich die betrogene und gedemütigte Ehefrau gemeinsam mit der Geliebten erhebt, um sich zu rächen. Isabelle Adjani (Queen Ma ..."
"Sharon Stone plays the title character, a gun moll with a heart of gold who takes a 7-year-old boy under her wing when her mobster friends threaten to rub him out (after killing his entire family). This remake of John Cassavetes's l980 film should probably have been nipped in the bud; Stone is totally miscast in the title role. As for the other characters, they don't inspire much sympathy or even interest in the audience, not even the c ..."
"Regisseur Sam Raimi (Tanz der Teufel 1-3, Ein einfacher Plan) versucht auf spielerische Art, die exotischen Mysterien des Spaghetti-Westerns in diesem stilsicheren, aber gehaltlosen Film einzufangen. Sharon Stone (Die Muse, Sphere) spielt die Fremde, die in das Western-Städtchen Redemption reitet, gerade zur Zeit des alljährlichen Duell-Wettbewerbs. Die wahren Beweggründe für ihr Auftauchen sind der Stoff, der auch in einem Sergio-Leone ..."
"Amiable Irishman Joe (Scottish comedian Billy Connolly), after an all-time mother of a bad day, decides to leave his adopted New York home and seek adventure. Unfortunately, he runs into Hush (Sharon Stone) and gets far more adventure than he bargained for. Beautiful Joe is a well-intentioned film, and that is nearly all that can be said for it. It tries to be both comedy and drama, but is comfortable as neither. Stone's character is th ..."
"Topnotch casting fails to conceal a pointlessly tortuous and essentially empty Sam Shepard conceit; it's basically a rehash of themes from better Shepard plays about guilty secrets buried in the past. In this 1999 movie, Jeff Bridges plays Lyle, a slick Kentucky horse breeder about to make a career-topping sale of a prospective Derby winner (the title character, as it were). Lyle's youthful crony, Vinnie (Nick Nolte at his scuzziest), p ..."
"Topnotch casting fails to conceal a pointlessly tortuous and essentially empty Sam Shepard conceit; it's basically a rehash of themes from better Shepard plays about guilty secrets buried in the past. In this 1999 movie, Jeff Bridges plays Lyle, a slick Kentucky horse breeder about to make a career-topping sale of a prospective Derby winner (the title character, as it were). Lyle's youthful crony, Vinnie (Nick Nolte at his scuzziest), p ..."
"Sharon Stone plays the title character, a gun moll with a heart of gold who takes a 7-year-old boy under her wing when her mobster friends threaten to rub him out (after killing his entire family). This remake of John Cassavetes's l980 film should probably have been nipped in the bud; Stone is totally miscast in the title role. As for the other characters, they don't inspire much sympathy or even interest in the audience, not even the c ..."
"Director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) tries gamely to recapture the exotic mysteries of spaghetti Westerns in this stylish but empty film, which stars Sharon Stone as a stranger who comes to the town of Redemption in time for an annual shooting contest. Her real motivations for being there are the stuff that might have found their way into a film by Sergio Leone--in fact, much of this film is a pastiche of Leone's greatest hits, including ..."
"In 1996, Sharon Stone put a little grit into her glamorous image by playing a suspicious, snarling death row inmate caught up in the politics of the death penalty. Director Bruce Beresford tackled a similar drama in his uncompromising Breaker Morant, but here he's stuck with a script that favors the tepid story of her ne'er-do-well clemency lawyer (Rob Morrow), whose dormant conscience awakens as he champions her case. It's a well- ..."
"Diabolique is Jeremiah Chechik's 1996 revamped version of the 1955 French film noir tale of two teachers at a boys school conspiring to kill the headmaster (played in the remake by Chazz Palminteri of Jade and The Usual Suspects). The three assemble an intriguing triangle of revenge and deceit as the headmaster's abused and humiliated wife and mistress team up to get even. Mia Baran is the fragile wife with a delicate heart condition, p ..."
"Just awful enough to qualify as someone's guilty pleasure, this convoluted thriller was supposed to cash in on the supposedly sexy teaming of Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone (then hot from her ample exposure in Basic Instinct), but their naked groping in a shower provides one of the film's unintentionally funny highlights. Ray Quick (Stallone) is a former CIA bomb expert whose former colleague (James Woods) is now in cahoots with a ..."