Twisted

Twisted (2004)

  • 1% of critics liked it
    (135 reviews)

  • 40% of users liked it
    (18,730 ratings)

Philip Kaufman directs the detective thriller Twisted (originally to be titled The Blackout Murders), with a script by up-and-coming filmmaker Sarah Thorp. Ashley Judd plays troubled police detective Jessica Shepard, who works under the jurisdiction of the man who raised her as his daughter, police… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Sarah Thorp
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Drama
In Theaters
Feb 27, 2004 Wide
Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • , Chicago Reader

    This thriller seems most interested in lingering over battered and bloodied male faces.

  • , Time Out

    Sarah Thorpe's screenplay is a compendium of by-the-book clichés; Kaufman's direction leaves the material stranded in a limbo between po-faced and trashy; Judd's approximation of drunkenness is worrying to behold.

  • Rex Reed, New York Observer

    The outdated, cliche-riddled direction is so inept and indifferent that it's hard to believe Twisted was lensed by the same Philip Kaufman who made The Right Stuff.

  • Jorge Morales, Village Voice

    A suspense thriller without thrills or suspense.

  • Charles Taylor, Salon.com

    Judd is let down by Twisted because tearful, confused victim doesn't come naturally to her; she's not fun to watch suffer if you can't see her calculating the payback.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Nicki M


    Very average thriller with who cares ending. I gave it an extra star for Ashley, as I always think she is quite good. Story here is just a bit flat and surprisingly dull.

  • Thomas J


    Who done it? Typical in you know there is "twist" coming, but still enjoyable. Something felt very 1990s about the whole movie.

  • Lewis C


    Twisted is your typical thriller that has a obligatory, game-changing twist at the end. Ashley Judd is as gorgeous as always, while Garcia and Jackson phone-in performances that really don't require a lot of effort from them. There's nothing new here, and the… More

  • Luke B


    A film with a lot of talent which can't get over a very bad script. First of all it throws out some excellent ideas of how everyone is a killer, it's just about control, but soon gets swept away with "could it be him?" crapness. Constantly it sheds a shadow over… More

  • Julie B


    This featured some of the most spectacularly bad acting I've seen in quite some time.

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