Best movie ever!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Cynthia Kellogg (Demi Moore) voluntarily comes in to give evidence about the case of James Urbanski (Bruce Willis) to police detectives John Woods (Harvey Keitel) and Linda Nealon. She describes the relationship between the brash James and his combative wife Joyce (Glenne Headly). Cynthia and Joyce are best friends working as hairdressers. The trio goes to a carnival and James ends up dead. Cynthia wants to call the cops but Joyce insists on covering it up. Cynthia tells her husband Artie (John Pankow).The main problem for me is that I don't believe Cynthia from the first moment she opens her mouth. With Bruce Willis playing James so broadly and the detectives challenging her story constantly, it adds up to an unreliable story teller. That happens a lot in good narratives if it's handled right. By the thirty minutes mark, James is already dead and I'm ready for the next version of the story. That's how this movie should have gone. The detectives can interview someone else and the characters within the story become different while adding to the story. Instead, the story keeps following Cynthia and I don't believe anything on the screen.

***SPOILERS*** The film "Mortal Thoughts" despite the little attention it got when released back in 1991 generated over 19 million dollars in ticket sales. That's more the twice what it cost the studio Colombia Pictures in producing it. The film starts off with Cynthia Kellogg, Dami Moore, agreeing to be interrogated and video taped in the police station in what were the circumstances behind the brutal murder of her friend Jimmy Urbanski, Bruce Willis. Jimmy was found floating in the Hudson River with his throat slashed after he disappeared from sight at the annual Feast of Saint Rocco Festival.Interrogated by detectives John Woods,Harvey Keitel, and Linda Nealon, Billie Neal, with Woods doing most of the talking Cynthia tells the story of her friends the Urbanskis Jimmy and his wife Joyce, Glenne Headly, and what a violent marriage the two had. Jimmy a drug and alcohol as well as wife abuser got so out of hand that Joyce at one point tried to poison him, by spiking his sugar with rat poison, with a shocked in what her friend was planning Cynthia preventing that from happening at the very last moment! As for the horny as a tomcat Jimmy he had his eyes on Cynthia every time she was alone or even not alone with him alway putting his hands, on and under her bra, where they weren't supposed to be.**SPOILERS*** It was then at the Saint Rocco Festival that Jimmy high on drugs and booze made an attempt to force his way on his wife Joyce who, off camera, ended up slashing his throat with a box cutter in the couples van. It's in how both Joyce and her very reluctant friend Cynthia disposed of Jimmy's body that got the police in the persons of Det. Stone & Nealon to get a bit suspicious in Cynthia's story. The movie leads the audience and police in a number of wild goose chases with both Cynthia and her friend, who was since arrested in her husband Jimmy's murder, Joyce contradicting each other in exactly what were the circumstances that lead of to Jimmy's brutal murder; which turned out to be a case of self defense. As all this is going on Joyce now on the brink of a nervous breakdown keeps threatening Cynthia to keep her mouth shut about what happened that fateful evening at the festival or else. What the or else turned out to be was Cynthia's husband Arthur, John Parkow, who was about to take off with the kids and leave her on her own ends up being murdered, with his head blown off, by a deranged Joyce who accused him of trying to turn her over to the police.**MAJOR SPOILER** Very good but not all that surprising twist ending that's all in flashback brings out the terrible truth behind Jimmy's death. Jimmy was a brutal and uncouth individual and didn't really deserve what happened to him. But in him being the uncontrollable and sex crazed psycho that he was Jimmy went a bit too far and ended up bringing it-his death-all upon himself.

Demi Moore,(Cynthia Kellogg),"G.I. Jane", played an exceptionally difficult role, where she gets involved with a very abusive lover played by Bruce Willis,(James Urbanski) who has mood changes like the weather, hot, cold and goes completely nuts. I was beginning to lose my patience with Cynthia because she never reported these incidents to the police in order to prevent this horrible human abuse. This is a good film to show innocent women in this world, if you experience this type of behavior, run to the nearest police station and turn this guy in immediately. However, I must say that Bruce Willis did such a great acting job, you actually grew to hate him and the role he played. Good Film, Enjoy

'Mortal Thoughts' believe it or not had the potential to be a decent thriller, if only the filmmakers knew what they hell direction they wanted things to go in beforehand (or if they did know, then they should've clued the rest of us in on it).Demi Moore is Cynthia, a distraught woman who comes in to testify about the death of her friend Joyce's (Glenn Headley) husband, a sick sadistic moron named James (Bruce Willis). James is an abusive husband, and it makes you wonder what the hell Joyce was thinking getting married to this guy (and him too, since he obviously didn't care about her). She saw his true personality from the start, since they argued about pure nonsense even at the wedding. He's just a no good guy. The guy you love to hate.Joyce always threatens to kill her husband, according to Cynthia. But, she never really goes through with it. Until one night at a carnival, when James's antics just get to be more than Joyce can take. Cynthia sure was wishing she didn't tag along, especially when Joyce shows her James bleeding to death in the back of the van, and hopeless Joyce admitting that she "accidentally" stabbed her husband.In one agonizingly long sequence of flashback events leading all the way up to Cynthia's decision to testify, she tells the interrogating detectives (including one Harvey Keitel) how she helped cover up the murder to protect her best friend, Joyce. But, one lie after another about what really happened seem to be a mounting problem for Cynthia more than Joyce because she seems to be the one left doing all the dirty work. What looked like helping a friend suddenly turns into a game of revenge. Suddenly, going to the cops right away after James's death doesn't look so bad now, considering the consequences Cynthia, more than Joyce, faces if she were caught. I suppose, with her confession, she hopes the police will go easy on both her and Joyce.All the while, we revert back to this interrogation, as the detectives are reviewing Cynthia's stories for loopholes, making her nervous as they point out her contradictions. And this is suppose to get our attention, not just push along the flashbacks because they never change even though her testimony may in order to accommodate the policeman's questions. But, sometimes it is just boring nitpicking rather than something that might make us consider that Cynthia's story is really just full of holes. Even Harvey Keitel doesn't make it seem interesting and neither does any of Demi Moore's forced reactions of confusion and guilt and sorrow. If the interrogation part had been much stronger, perhaps we would've been forced to take more interest in the general flashback. But the entire story is just too dull to muster that kind of support. On the other hand, the movie doesn't totally leave you hanging. The story does start to get good once Cynthia and Joyce get involved in this mess and then try one stupid thing after another to keep it quiet. But it just didn't seem like enough (and the story by itself was just too long), especially considering that the interrogation and pointing out Cynthia's contradictions are meant to make this mere drama a real thriller. It just fails to do so, and so you're left with about a half-good thriller which had the potential to be much better. And, when the final twist arrives, it just seemed like a tragic let down, rather than a real shocker. Nothing seemed to properly build up to it.