Best movie of this year hands down!

Just perfect...

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

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

An awkwardly made Freudian tale with Julian Sands as a surgeon obsessed with good time girl Sherilyn Fenn. Sands has serious mommy issues and when Fenn rejects him, he amputates her legs and arms until she inexplicably comes around. Stupidity rules with this lousy movie and the high gloss cinematography & constantly moving camera (it's directed by novice Jennifer Lynch) adds little. What could have been a demented version of LAST TANGO IN Paris as interpreted by Tod Browning is instead merely a silly melodrama. Despite the colorful cast (which also includes Bill Paxton, Kurtwood Smith & Art Garfunkel), it's pretty dull stuff. Sands is supposed to be demented but really just comes across as super fussy. Fenn is suitably callous for most of the film but then she too is done in by this empty-headed claptrap.

Yes this is that notorious film, Kim Basinger, walked out on, and I'll be honest, I'm gratefully glad, otherwise we wouldn't of been graced with the magical and beautiful presence Sherilyn Fenn has. What happened to her? Skipping a release in Adelaide, my eyes were soon eating up her beauty, a few months later. This movie was penned by David Lynch's daughter, and learning that she was only nineteen when she wrote it, I must say wowed me. Some people will see this movie as just an excuse for actors to take their clothes off, I can tell you, it's much more than that. It's the story of such deep sexual obsession one surgeon (Julian Sands who pops up in a lot of these films, and other R ones, when he's not warlocking) has on this beauty, he spent one night with, he just can't let go. When this daring, live life to the full beauty, who I must admit, really is a b..ch, attends a party, Sands is hosting, she makes quite an impression, attracting the eye of many a crowd, including Sands's very hot wife, in one sense, it will have you thinking, "What an idiot?" but other scenes will make you think that too, as at times he becomes such a pathetic, sad, pitiable character. As Helena is going away the next day, in a rush to leave, the next day, she realizes she's lost her wallet that has been purposely misplaced, by the jealous angst Sands. This fracas leads to a tragedy with a twist. I use the term twist, so I don't spoil the illusion of the movie for viewers. The tragedy, involving a car, that's knocked her down, and taken her legs with it, leads to the heart of the story where Helena becomes a virtual prisoner in Sands's home, where for the rest of the movie, it's interplay between the two actors, you could knock a play into shape with. For jealous obsessive Sands, this has become his dream. But the interruption of Kurtwood Smith, as an older physician and colleague of Sands, kind of puts a damper on the situation. But the interesting plot of movie with some occasional hot scenes, keeps you absorbed, as here's a tale of a really deep, take no prisoners, obsession. How the accident really concluding, I must say, threw me for a six, the way it deceived us, was very smartly done. New talent, Lynch (where proved here, it runs in the family) has fashioned a really solid adult feature, that like, The Lover, Husbands and Lovers, even Lake Consequence, you shouldn't pass off as just an excuse for sex, or label it, "just a dirty movie", as this one definitely isn't. Fenns's natural spellbinding beauty, is worth the rental alone. Don't pass it off.

This thriller is one of a kind. The story is compelling and interesting."Boxing Helena" will lure you in, and once you are caught, cut off your limbs. This is a thriller with lots of depth and detail.The characters are interesting and well cut out. Each bringing lots to the story, and you can immerse yourself in the characters, because they are so well brought to life. Of course, the cast have a lot to do with this as well, and the casting was perfect for each role. The scenery in the movie works well, because it has that touch of personal space to it. It is not scary or dark sets, and it works well for the movie.The movie is not a gory or really scary one, but it will keep you thrilled with its sense of psychological dread. The story goes forward at a constant flow, never leaving you bored."Boxing Helena" leaves you with something to ponder about once it has ended, and I like that in a movie, that means you actually got something for your money. I recommend that you give this movie a chance if you like a movie with some depth.

My only recommendation for seeing "Boxing Helena" is for the short scenes flaunting Nicolette Scorsese. Director Jennifer Chambers Lynch should thank me for my saying so, because upon many a heterosexual male once reading that and remembering Nicolette from her role as the gorgeous lingerie saleswoman in "Christmas Vacation", there should be a spike in "Boxing Helena" rentals/purchases.Julian Sands plays a physician who is obsessed with Sherilyn Fenn, an ex-lover. Fenn doesn't dig him too much, however. When she suffers a terrible accident, Sands goes to town with her extremities and she is left a captive at his mercy."Boxing Helena" is depressing, uneventful, morbidly perverse in a boring sort of way, and ultimately an unmemorable waste of time. This, for me, was the turning point for Julian Sands where his career took a nose dive. In my opinion, it did little for Fenn's struggling career either, which has never seemed to completely lift off the ground.