Malice
"A slick, engrossing, sexy thriller!" -Leonard Maltin
What happens when you open your home to someone who's gutsier than you, more devious than you...and crafty enough to steal your life right out form under you? Plenty of Malice. Starring Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman and Bill Pullman, and boasting "an excellent supporting cast" (The New York Times) that includes Oscar-winners Gwyneth Paltrow and Anne Bancroft, this bold, riveting thriller is "deviously entertaining" (The New York Times).
Easy-going college dean Andy Safian's (Pullman) quiet New England world has just been terribly disrupted. Two coeds have been raped, a third has been killed, and the police are beginning to suspect him! At home, bills are piling up, his wife (Kidman) is developing severe stomach cramps and the new tenant -- a devilishly handsome surgeon (Baldwin) -- is regularly "entertaining" nurses late into the night. Little does Andy know that all of these events are related...and that he's about to be blindsided by something more daring and deadly than anything he could have ever imagined!
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Malice - ABC99
The twists and turns come so fast in Malice that you don't realise that they really don't make any sense. Only by looking back do you find things don't really add up. But while you watching it is an entertaining, if not ground breaking thriller.
One other thing...what the hell was witht he serial rapist subplot that ends 40 minutes in....really sloppyPretty Good Story With Inconsistent Acting - revsdd
"Malice" features a good, if somewhat bizarre storyline, somewhat detracted from by what I thought were inconsistent performances from the lead actors. It can be a bit tough to follow at times because of the changes in focus. The movie starts with concerns about a rapist on the loose attacking college girls, progresses through a tragedy around the inability of the Safiens (Bill Pullman and Nicole Kidman) to have children, and finally ends up being about an insurance scam with tragic results.
Of the lead actors, Alec Baldwin (as Dr. Jed Hill) offered probably the best performance of the movie, but I didn't think it as one of the stronger performances I've seen him in. Pullman and Kidman were basically OK, although I thought Kidman did very well (surprisingly well, in fact) in the last half hour or so, playing a "bad girl" role - which I'm not used to seeing her in. Hopelessly miscast, in my view, was Bebe Neuwirth as a police detective on the trail of the rapist.
The twists and turns in the plot made this entertaining, if a bit head-spinning, and while the performances weren't stellar, they didn't really mar the movie. Still, I thought the whole thing was just a bit too hard to keep track of. I like a good mystery, but this head-spinning stuff, trying to keep up with the various curve balls that kept being thrown at me, came to be a bit much. An OK movie, but no better than that.greatest speech in american movie history! - t1--
Haha.
Not really a "good" movie, per se, but it has what I would like to call "the Greatest Speech in American Movie History." I'm talking about, of course, Alec Baldwin's character's speech during his deposition. (The "I *am* God" speech, in case you're wondering.)
Just watch the movie for that scene and you'll know what I mean. That speech is priceless. =D
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Malice - ABC99
The twists and turns come so fast in Malice that you don't realise that they really don't make any sense. Only by looking back do you find things don't really add up. But while you watching it is an entertaining, if not ground breaking thriller.
One ...Pretty Good Story With Inconsistent Acting - revsdd
"Malice" features a good, if somewhat bizarre storyline, somewhat detracted from by what I thought were inconsistent performances from the lead actors. It can be a bit tough to follow at times because of the changes in focus. The movie starts with concerns ...greatest speech in american movie history! - t1--
Haha.
Not really a "good" movie, per se, but it has what I would like to call "the Greatest Speech in American Movie History." I'm talking about, of course, Alec Baldwin's character's speech during his deposition. (The "I *am* God" speech, in case you're ...