I love this movie so much

Wonderful character development!

Great Film overall

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

When your teen idol releases simultaneously erotic songs, a sex book and a nude movie, you feel just sad and know that things would never be the same with her ! I have never understood her choice, all the more than all her products are awful, bad taste and proposes a rather deviant, gloomy, psychotic sexuality ! Is this Madonna hot ? Not at all ! This movie is so dumb that it's finally funny. There is a evident effort to build something respectful with the famous cast and the care for judicial proceeding but at the end, nobody believes it as every opportunity to get nude is exploited. To see Dafoe as crazy as a bitch is just the worst part he did in his career and watching Langella telling how Madonna exhausted him is just the best comedy of the year ! If you like to do trash, the movie is for you and if you are a Madonna fan, well, try to forget it !

Madonna's acting is not as bad as the script is. In fact, I don't think that Madonna is a bad actress at all. When presented with a good material, she delivers. But she tends to pick the characters that match her public persona. In this film, Madonna's body is a thing of beauty to look at and admire. She channels the actresses of the classic Hollywood era, which I adore, and has the best boobs in the history of Hollywood.

What could have been a well executed and suspenseful murder mystery is instead an erotic thriller that is clichéd and poorly strung together and just wastes the talents involved.In one of the worst performances of her short-lived career is Madonna as the film's femme fatale accused of the murder of her wealthy lover, but of course the clichéd question is: did she do it? While the "Material Girl" singer did turn in a lauded performance in "Desperately Seeking Susan" a few years prior, the singer turned actress is blander than watching paint dry in this film. The filmmakers seemed to have only cast the actress for her scandalous sexuality and for provocative imagery. There is no substance to Madonna's work as she just looks pretty and delivers horrible dialogue that is just cringe-worthy and reeking of amateur screen writing. While the singer was given her choice of leading man, there is zero chemistry between her and costar Willem Dafoe whose talented is even more ill-used; coming off as a pairing we could care less about. Madonna ended up garnering her first Razzie for her abysmal performance, which was truly earned. A true victim of this train-wreck with wasted acting is Madonna's ill-fated costar Willem Dafoe as her defense attorney who gets pulled into a dangerous web of sex, lies and murder. The actor truly gives the film his best effort, but if the viewer looks carefully one can see the actor is not enjoying the material he is given. While playing an anti-hero of sorts has paid off for Dafoe in other roles, here it's difficult to try and watch such a talented performer deliver equally cringing lines with an utter lack of enthusiasm. Even Dafoe's chemistry with Julianne Moore as his wife is completely lacking as Moore is hardly given anything to work with and like Dafoe, doesn't appear to want to be in the film. Dafoe received his first Razzie nomination, but got lucky to lose out, but why he agreed to take the gig is beyond comprehension. The film's premise is promising enough to make one curious to see the film. However sitting through about one hour and forty-some minutes of horrible dialogue, bad acting, completely lifeless sex scenes and a bland clichéd ending is not worth the time. Some will defend this schlock-fest, but it really is worthy of the harsh criticism.

Those three words seem to run through most of the reviews for this title, yet still it maintains its very low 4.1 average rating. It's probably one of the best of the exploitative, sleazy erotic thrillers of the 90's. That's not high praise, but it also places it quite far away from the worst films ever made.The weakest link in the film - and maybe the one responsible for much of its bad reputation is Madonna. Having tried her might at several mediocre comedies, Madonna chose this thriller as her first serious role, and she doesn't quite make it. Her acting isn't quite horrible - but she's clearly trying to channel the femme fatales of the classic Film Noirs, and placing herself in the same category as the likes of Barbara Stanwyck, Marlene Dietrich and Kim Novak, she's nowhere near good enough. It's also not as good as her previous femme fatale role on Dick Tracy, which was just self-aware and campy enough to work. But Body of Evidence takes itself too seriously for Madonna's performance to pass. Surprisingly, she isn't even good enough at being sensual and seductive, making the sexual scenes quite awkward (as lovely as it is to see so much of Madonna's skin, that is).But surprisingly, most of the other scenes work quite well. Willem Dafoe and Joe Mantegna are good enough as the rival lawyers to make the courtroom scenes very effective, and as a courtroom drama alone (paying as little mind as possible to Madonna's scenes) it's well written, well acted and quite entertaining. Julianne Moore is good in her few short scenes as Dafoe's wife, and much of the supporting cast is also solid. All of these make it an entertaining enough thriller, filled to the brim with clichés but still managing to hold a little punch at the end. It's by no means a great film but it's also not that bad.