Meg Ryan seems to be going through a mid life crisis at the moment. In an attempt to get past her wholesome girl next door image, she obviously decided that a risque adult thriller was just the ticket for making Hollywood execs realise she was more than just a pretty face.
Teaming up with Jane Campion, Ryan made this erotic thriller which pushes back the boundaries of explicitness in a mainstream American film, and yet at the same time, takes 10 steps backwards in terms of the well worn storyline.
If you've seen Looking For Mr Goodbar then you may get a nagging sense of deja vu as single teacher Ryan witnesses a sex act in a bar and then spends the rest of the movie being quizzed by a cop with a bad moustache.
Was it him that she saw receiving oral pleasure from a girl who wound up dead? Well Ryan's character is obviously having a hard time coping with what she saw as a personal fantasy puts bad 'tash cop in the scene.
Meanwhile, Campion throws a few red herrings into the movie as it winds its way to an inevitable conclusion.
In the Cut is not a bad movie. It takes its time examining the nature of desire and fantasy while the audience is left guessing about who could be the killer stalking New York and slicing up poor victims.
Great cinematography and fine performances by all make this worth a look but the irritating flashbacks on an ice rink would have been better left out of the cut.
7/10
Teaming up with Jane Campion, Ryan made this erotic thriller which pushes back the boundaries of explicitness in a mainstream American film, and yet at the same time, takes 10 steps backwards in terms of the well worn storyline.
If you've seen Looking For Mr Goodbar then you may get a nagging sense of deja vu as single teacher Ryan witnesses a sex act in a bar and then spends the rest of the movie being quizzed by a cop with a bad moustache.
Was it him that she saw receiving oral pleasure from a girl who wound up dead? Well Ryan's character is obviously having a hard time coping with what she saw as a personal fantasy puts bad 'tash cop in the scene.
Meanwhile, Campion throws a few red herrings into the movie as it winds its way to an inevitable conclusion.
In the Cut is not a bad movie. It takes its time examining the nature of desire and fantasy while the audience is left guessing about who could be the killer stalking New York and slicing up poor victims.
Great cinematography and fine performances by all make this worth a look but the irritating flashbacks on an ice rink would have been better left out of the cut.
7/10