Lack of good storyline.

Excellent, smart action film.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

This film deserves a "zero." Don't waste your rental dollar.Utter waste of time.Unfortunately, I need to write 10 lines minimum to comment.I wonder if mere periods count. Period. Period. Period.An alert middle-schooler could have done a better job with every aspect of this disaster.You have been warned! Seriously. Really.(IMDB screens should be made available in every rental store. The informed renter is a happy renter.)Oh come on. Still not enough lines. Sigh.Okay, read each of the reasonably coherent criticisms of this film as posted by other users and multiply the awful quotient by 5. There, that should do it.

This movie attempted to take the viewer into some dark psychological aspect of feminism that may just be really rare if not unreal- only dark thoughts of the writers personal imagination. This was a truly boring and distasteful experience for me. It was so bad that it might just be an anti-feminist movie in a satirical manner. I know of no positive benefit that anyone could receive from viewing this movie. I would recommend it to anyone stating that even taken to extremes freedom of expression is a positive even if it is not entertaining. If there is one moral to the story it is that the main character (not the heroine by any stretch of the imagination) managed to muddle through and to succeed in obtaining her judgeship in spite of being so dark in personality and screwed up. The viewer should have a special forewarning regarding movies with this degree of darkness...as in D for dark!

Spoilers herein.This is a very ambitious film. It attempts to merge the cool abstract perspective of Hal Hartley with the visceral exploration of personal damage of Jane Campion. These two seem contradictory and indeed are not successfully combined here.But it has some very lovely and lasting images, enough so that the experience is definitely worthwhile. The project actually seems to have been conceived around a few of these set pieces, then loosely tied together with some narrative bits.When people take chances like this, they deserve our attention. They deserve as much risk in the watching as they took in the making. Not everyone believes in risky watching - but if you do, you can trust Tilda. The idea here is that women are victims of the roles thrust upon them. Tilda is more intelligent as an actress than is Streitfeld as a filmmaker so she is thrust into much the same situation. Watch how she uses the latter to illuminate the former. This is not the intended exploration of how woman misfit into society, instead concerns how they misfit into the film imagination.That's where the Hartley technique comes in. His films are about films, with lots of self comment and layer shifting. Not all of this worked for me, but enough did.The key failure is in balancing archetype and stereotype in presenting character icons. Here, we haveEve, who is unfairly reduced to a sexually confused parental rejectMaddie, her sister who gets a doctorate in her own pathology, emotional theftAnnunciata, a selfconstructed stripper/seducerRenee, a reluctant bisexual psychiatristLangley, a character that only women will appreciate, the womaneating weaselEmma, terminally hungry for loveEd, hypnotized by her commanding wombAn Earth MotherAn absent motherIf this sounds like Greenaway's `8 1/2 Women` taxonomy, it is. You might go there for a better purely abstract examination of this same notion of roles as prisons/perversions.If you merely need the visceral, `Ten Tiny Love Stories,' may be your station. The notion of roles and fantasy layering is also in `Heavenly Creatures,' and better. Here's a delicious irony. Notice that the first three women on the list are redheads? I'm convinced that one of the strongest automatic perceptions, one of the deepest, hardwired presumptions about the female image is associated with red hair. Would have been good to know if Streitfeld was an unwitting victim of this.Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

What a piece of pretentious trash! It's so bad that even on TV, it's boring. How did people like Tilda Swinton, Karen Sillas and Amy Madigan become involved in this piece of unredeemable garbage is beyond me. La Swinton likes performing in bad, pretentious movies, she is really quite insufferable. The other two, beats me. It's humorless and pointless and about some mysterious kind of female suffering that is quite unbearable to watch and a figment of a seriously misguided feminist's imagination. Just watching it gave me PMS. Listed as executive producer is Zalman King, king of soft porn laughable films. Yuck.