Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

pointyfilippa The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

qmtv So, here's the story: A woman, high school or college English teacher, who apparently wants sex but is timid, daydreaming through her life, gets involved with a dirtbag detective investigating a serial killer. She gets attacked. Her sister gets killed. Lots of red herrings. She eventually kills the killer. Daydream back to her life.What we have is a bunch of disgusting characters. We have porno. We have profanity. We have characters acting out a script that is unrealistic. We have garbage hand held cinematography. We have a couple of classic tunes redone in the worst possible way. We have a story that just does not add up. What the hell was this? A serial killer story? A sexually repressed woman? Here's some of the garbage I noticed. I'm sure there more:Kevin Bacon is a red herring, in a red hat. Nice try. Meg Ryan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Mark Ruffalo are all decent actors. But the material/dialogue and script is garbage. If you watch this as a comedy, maybe intoxicated, you may find some entertainment here. Otherwise forget it. Meg walks around this movie in a daze. Especially at the end, after she kills Mark's partner. Barefoot, and bloody all over. Nobody stops her. She just walks back to her apartment, and lays beside Mark. Garbage. At first it seemed like Jennifer's character was Meg's lesbian lover, then we find out she is her sister. What's up with that full mouth kiss in front of the black guy? The cops, Mark and his partner, unnecessary cursing. Mark's partner has a plastic gun. He would not be on the street. Sex scenes are cliché and stupid. City scenes are all hand held garbage cinematography. Tattoo on hand. The guy is getting a blowjob, in the dark, and Meg notices the tattoo from 20 feet away. Right! Meg mentioned the tattoo to Mark. But Mark didn't add it up that it could have been his partner. What's up with that? Not a very good detective. What's with all the art crap sex talk? Wow, they know the F word. Great. Black student. Another red herring. That goes nowehere. Gay Black bouncer. More filler crap.After the first time Meg did Mark she meets Jennifer in a coffee shop with a black eye. Meg didn't have a black eye when she was with Mark. So, you freaking screw that up too. This is like some kind of an art film. Porno. Profanity. All unlikable characters. No chemistry between the characters or the actors. The Flashback scenes of Meg's parents skiing. Another art failure.Started crap. Nothing happens. Meg dozing throughout taking notes of words that she sees like it's a prophetic insight. Middle crap. Things happen, except they're just garbage. Ending crap. At least the film is consistent. There was a scene where Kevin Beacon asks Meg to watch his dog because he works 18 hours as an intern. Meg refuses. Kevin says well I'll have to put him down then. What the freaking hell was that all about. Who the hell wants to see a movie about some dirtbag characters like this? Who?The ending was just plain garbage. First Meg runs away from Mark after handcuffing him to some pipes in her house. And Mark's partner drives her to a Lighthouse near the George Washington Bridge, where he's got some kind of room with music and wine hooked up. He proposes to her with a knife on a ring. Kisses her. She shoots him with Mark's gun, twice. Ohh, well that shooting practice we had to sit through all adds up now. Then she walks home bare foot, and all bloody. Nobody stops her. She just walks home, finds Mark still hand cuffed to the pipe, and lays beside him. Wow!Last week I watched a low budget film from Poland about some kids going camping and all getting killed. Pretty mindless garbage film. Close to Zero brain power exerted there. Now, I would rather watch that movie than "In The Cut". In the Cut looks like they used some brain power, but just wrong. In the negative.Forget Plan 9 from Outer Space. In the Cut is the worst movie ever made. A complete waste of time, talent and money. All involved in this movie should be ashamed of themselves. Including people who watch it. I know I am.

kenjha A sexually frustrated school teacher becomes involved with a cop investigating a series of murders. Ryan tries to shed her good girl image but manages to only shed her clothes. She seems to have had too much work done on her face, which is rather distracting. Speaking of distracting, the direction is horrible, with the shaking camera and ugly framing constantly calling attention away from the story - not that there is much going on of interest in the story anyway. Campion is responsible for the poor direction as well as the lousy screenplay. The plot is lacking in narrative flow and the dialog is embarrassingly bad. Ruffalo is usually worth watching, but he can't do much with his undeveloped character. Leigh comes off best.

xray-953-237678 Jane Campion clearly can't make it. The film doesn't work at all. At first, we have the framing, witch is very tiring, with the continuous close - ups and the hand held camera only makes things worse. Blurring things or dimming the lights does not, I repeat does not creates atmosphere, it only shows luck of creativeness together with a very old fashion approach in film making. Showing us again and again every detail of the faces of the actors does not engage us more, it only makes us want to zoom out ourselves to see wtf is going on. The music is so academic that it doesn't exist. Worst of all: The dialogs. The film crawls all the way from the beginning to the bitter end and the dialogs are drugging it the other way. What can I say? Together with Holy Smoke, a film that ruined the talented Harvey Keitel and Kate Winslet, (a tragedy really), In The Cut is so pointless that makes you wonder, was she really thinking making them? I wouldn't consider watching anything else from her. I gave her a four, for it's obvious that she tried, but she clearly failed. She doesn't have it. Sorry Jane.

Vomitron_G Ehrrr... It's like "Se7en" for the ladies, maybe? I had mixed feelings about this one, story-wise. I didn't really like the ending, but I did like the very last shot of the film. And besides, this movie's got other things going for it... The cinematography, for example (you guys were expecting me to say something about Meg Ryan going gratuitously nude in this one, right?). By the way, you American DVD-renters got dissed again: the fellatio-scene in the beginning of the movie is cut in the regular rentals. My European version wasn't (but I've heard you guys do have an "Uncut Director's Edition"). Oh, and what was up with the numerous random shots portraying an American flag throughout the whole movie? Anybody got an explanation? Anyway, "In The Cut" is worth a watch, if not alone for the buzz it caused upon its release.