Guilty as Sin (1993)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Jennifer Haines	Rebecca DeMornay
David Greenhill	Don Johnson
Moe	Jack Warden
Phil	Stephen Lang	½
Detective Martinez	Luis Guzman
Judge	Dana Ivey
DiAngelo	Ron White
Kathleen Bigelow	Barbara Eve Harris
Ed Lombardo	John Kapelos

Review

Veteran director Sidney Lumet's direction in the unerotic thriller Guilty as Sin is a bad combination of sloppy and out of date. He seems to have had no belief that his film could work on any other level than as a melodramatic guilty pleasure at best, and that's also exactly what the film has to offer - for as long as it's able to keep the pace up. Unfortunately, Guilty as Sin doesn't have neither the nerve nor eroticism of its more successful sister Basic Instinct - maybe because Don Johnson's David Greenhill isn't the sexy counterpart of Sharon Stone's Catherin Tramell, but rather a spoiled, sulking diva. Well, at least he's having fun with his part, which is more than can be said about the totally uncomfortable Rebecca de Mornay, who seems horny when she's supposed to be scared, and forced when she's supposed to be tough. You may be able to enjoy this film for a while if you want to, it has that curious, cheap 1990s appeal, but in the end, there's not much in here which makes a lasting impression one way or the other.

Copyright © 3.8.2011 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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