Sadly Over-hyped

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Sorry, DC makes me sick. He is not from or on this planet. I don't know what he is. An android? A zombie? I swear I could pass my hand right through him without any sensation. Seeing him on screen is an affront to my emotional stability. I will FF through this recording and NEVER record anything with him in it again.

This is a Basic Instict rehash plain and simple, actually it's a pre draft of basic instict. The directing is a mess, I can't believe this guy shot the french connection. But now he's old and where he tries to be different here, he is instead just plainly bad...Tight close ups for no reasons, boring set scenes, saturated photography...the cast is decent but with such a trite script...the dialog is worse than trivial.Its only saving grace is an unintended one, and maybe with that meditation in mind this can actually become a good film: Because the grotesqueness, blandness and stupidity in the realisation and script of this film reflects the world of powerless unsexual morons acting all powerful and sexual. Obviously this is unintended as this tries to be edgy, erotic and smart. It tries to be a murder mystery, a who done it on coke a la BI, but it ends up being a who gives a ..., I 've never been so emotionally detached at the end of any mystery. But in this way it poetically conveys within it's form the artificiality of power and sex, the dead end that is pleasure without sentiments and sensibility.A bland, derivative, tasteless film about power, sex and wealth, that fails so miserably that its failure becomes a medium of expression and gives the film an unintended second narrative level. It's also starkly realist, because what can be more real than a failed Hollywood flop on sex, money and power. You don't see people doing realistic actions, but you see people acting, directing badly, writing scripts badly. The epitome of decadence. It could even be quite a good sobering experience, even weirdly lyrical if one watches it with that in mind.

Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco investigates when a shady art dealer is murdered. Director William Friedkin is on auto-pilot with this silly retread of "Basic Instinct", however the dynamics of the plot tend to draw you in against your better judgment. The car stunts are fabulous, most of the actors are sultry eye-candy, elfin-faced David Caruso is admirably commanding, but the plot doesn't bear close scrutiny. Friedkin's porny scenes (which played havoc with the film's rating) walk that cinematic line between being necessary and just being exploitive (see "Lipstick"...and just about every movie written by this film's screenwriter, Joe Eszterhaus). "Jade" isn't despicable, but it leaves the viewer in the uncomfortable position of shameful voyeur, and while this may be titillating to some, it doesn't sit well in retrospect. ** from ****

Another thriller which borrows from "basic instinct" -af if there were something to borrow there- ,wich accumulates cardboard characters ,clichés,show off and a lot of "risqué" scenes.I've never liked Friedkin's films ,not even the so-called masterpieces such as "l'exorciste" -I had a good laugh watching it.He even remade Clouzot's "le Salaire de la Peur" !One must take risks! An exotic atmosphere in a desirable mansion is the main asset of a movie which blends sex galore,cars chase (in the "Bullitt " tradition" ),politics,animals' rights ,lectures on the basic instinct (by Linda Fiorentino),and the de rigueur "ambiguous" ending.