Jade (Unrated Version)

Buy This Item Jade (Unrated Version) by Paramount  Available from Amazon  $9.95  on 10-31-2008     Neither director William Friedkin nor star David Caruso could redeem this vulgar, nasty script by Joe Eszterhas. Caruso is a politically ambitious assistant D.A. investigating the gruesome murder of a San Francisco bigwig. Too many clues point in the direction of his former girlfriend (Linda Fiorentino), a shrink who has a secret sideline as call girl to the rich and kinky. For good measure, she's now married to Caruso's best friend, Chazz Palminteri. Friedkin has done much better work in other places; even he can't perform much magic here, though he tries, with a solid car chase (that suffers in comparison to those he staged in <i>French Connection</i> and <i>To Live and Die in L.A.</i>). <I>--Marshall Fine</I> Reader Reviews This movie has all the hallmarks of a potential hard hitting noir thriller at the beginning, and just when you expect the big tough Robert Mitchum like lead DA to walk in, you get-----David Caruso, with his red hair, feeble looking physique, bad skin, and ridiculously unbelievable "tough guy" attempt, which he seems to play in every show or movie. First of all, Assistant District Attorneys PROSECUTE cases AFTER the police conclude the investigation----they don't head up the investigation themselves, direct crime scenes and engage in one man car chases of suspects and witnesses. Second, who is going to ever believe that Linda Fiorintino would have ever had a romantic thing with the puny nebbish Caruso at one time and would still have a "thing" for him and his bureacrat salary and while married to a rich guy and living in a mansion? Laughable. Third, once his ex girlfriend now married to his supposed best friend, a rich powerful defense attorney (Palmenteire) becomes the prime suspect, no District Attorney could remain on the case without severe conflicts of interest. What is also baffling is the complete lack of development of the motives behind what the governor (Crenna)is doing and why he would be a complete thug and crook all in the name of some nookie. Interesting to watch for all the wrong reasons, and the ending will leave with a feeling of---where is the rest of the movie?

Jade (Unrated Version) Available from Amazon Price: $9.95 Updated on 10-31-2008.

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