Jade

Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco investigates when a shady art dealer is murdered. Director William Friedkin is on auto-pilot with this silly retread of "Basic Instinct", however the dynamics of the plot tend to draw you in against your better judgment. The car stunts are fabulous, most of the actors are sultry eye-candy, elfin-faced David Caruso is admirably commanding, but the plot doesn't bear close scrutiny. Friedkin's porny scenes (which played havoc with the film's rating) walk that cinematic line between being necessary and just being exploitive (see "Lipstick"...and just about every movie written by this film's screenwriter, Joe Eszterhaus). "Jade" isn't despicable, but it leaves the viewer in the uncomfortable position of shameful voyeur, and while this may be titillating to some, it doesn't sit well in retrospect. ** from ****

I think this movie has the lowest IMDB user vote rating of any movie that I like. It is really an entertaining movie and I am not sure why it is getting such poor ratings here. It is not perfect and may have a few plot holes, but it is definitely worth seeing. There must be an anti-Caruso IMDB splinter cell operating in cyberspace and conspiring to drop the IMDB user rating for all his movies about 2 to 3 points. Check it out and see what you think. Linda Fiorentino is truly hot and well cast as the steamy babe. Caruso's performance is very believable. Richard Crenna is underrated and good here too. Angie Everhart and Donna Murphy are pleasing to look at and also give good performances in smaller roles. Ignore the anti-Caruso crowd, who must be a band of closet NYPD Blue freaks that are still upset that he left that show to make films.

I first saw this in the early 2k on a dvd which I used to own n i dont even remember where my dvd is. Probably with a pal. Revisited it recently. I didn't enjoy the movie then but i still revisited thinking mayb i missed something. I was wrong. I used to think that The Guardian is Friedkin's worst movie but again i am proven wrong. This movie is worse than The Guardian. The film doesn't have any actual nudity or sex scene apart from the * photos n videotapes. The twist is silly but the worst part is that they wasted one of my fav actor Michael Biehn. Michael Biehn himself quoted that he had no idea what he was doing in the film. The best part is a dialogue by the fat cop, "Well, i think she had an uncontrollable urge coupled with hysterical blindness."