Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

ronarimes Almost - but not. Great acting by Sigorney Weaver and an appropriate music score. The plot started out well and I was pretty terrified, gripped by the drama - and then it went silly. I know it's a fictional story but no need to be so inplausible and ridiculous. It changed from being an exciting thriller into a black comedy and I felt short changed.

revolucion-567-39394 This isn't actually a terrible film by any stretch of the imagination; it's just one of those films which loses focus and is never quite sure what it wants to be.Basic outline - Sigourney Weaver plays a serial killer expert, haunted by her past, who is roped in by the police to guide them towards a serial killer operating in the city. The murderer is copying the M.O. of famous serial killers from the sixties, seventies and eighties.The problem is that even though it is ostensibly - as its title suggests - a film about Copycat killers, it feels somewhat lightweight in the amount of 'copycatting' - it feels like a tame half-baked plot line, which is more focused on Sigourney Weaver's character's past horrors. The 'copycat' idea just feels so, so underplayed - the director doesn't really work off it, it's just a vaguely interesting aside by the final reel.However, it must be said, Sigourney Weaver acts her socks off - she really does play an excellent role as an agoraphobic suffering with a chronic (understandable) case of PTSD. Holly Hunter also plays her role with gusto.However, disappointingly, the perpetrator is 2d and meaningless; after the film spent the first 10, 20 minutes explaining that a serial killer can be 'just like you and me' they didn't then justify that at all, they just roped in a cartoon (overacted) nutter.Too much is 'stock' - there is quite a jarring, wasted death which feels put in for the sake of ticking that Hollywood plot box. Police guards are literally the most useless in any film, ever. The scenes of the internet in its infancy are quite endearing, but do date the film terribly.Yeah, overall, it just feels like a missed opportunity. It's hard to believe that this and the majestic 'Se7en' came out within a month of each other; one looks, feels and plays like mid-nineties Hollywood, the other is so much more.

Leofwine_draca This passable serial killer thriller has a fair share of shocks and plot twists along the way to make it consistently entertaining and the running time feels only a little too long. There's a nice glossy look to the film although sometimes it looks as if things are too bright: most of this film's scenes either take place in bright light, or in total darkness. There's little in-between, and some of the gloomy atmosphere of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (a big influence) may have come in handy here.Initially, the characters of Sigourney Weaver (reclusive type) and Holly Hunter are extremely irritating, but they gradually grow on you and you actually begin to care about them (if not warm to them) as the film progresses. That's character development for you; I would advise you to stick with it, though, as it takes a while to get used to Hunter's incredibly annoying, high-pitched voice. Weaver proves herself yet again to be a resourceful heroine, here battling the demons inside her head as well as the manic killer. Her character's agoraphobia is a classic plot point in the tradition of Hitchcock or de Palma (certain scenes are very reminiscent of BODY DOUBLE) and you can guarantee that it'll come back to haunt her just at the wrong moment. Dermot Mulroney makes the most of his small, likable role as a young police detective.There's little in the way of violence, aside from a couple of throat-slashings, although the killer's demise is a nice spectacular shooting. One scene in the film I found to be incredibly disturbing and distasteful - the moment where Weaver receives a movie file through her email - but there's little else here that'll frighten you. Instead, the bulk of the film is of the typical police procedural nature, with our protagonists piecing together clues and discovering murder victims. The killer's motive and M.O. is nicely different from normal though and a good plot device. Otherwise, this is sound, if not incredibly exciting, viewing, which will keep you watching.

Claudio Carvalho In San Francisco, the criminal psychologist Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver) is specialized in serial-killers. During a trial, the accused Daryll Lee Cullum (Harry Connick Jr.) kills a police officer and tries to kill her and she becomes agoraphobic. Now Helen lives a reclusive life with her gay friend Andy (John Rothman) that helps her. Sometime later, there is a wave of crimes and Detectives M.J. Monahan (Holly Hunter) and Reuben Goetz (Dermot Mulroney) are investigating the murder cases. Helen identifies that the murderer is copycatting notorious serial-killers and she anonymously contacts the Police Department. After fourteen phone calls, she is identified by the police. Detectives M.J. and Reuben visit her and Helen teams up with them and prepares the profile of the killer that wants to be famous. But soon the copycat killer Peter Foley (William McNamara) contacts and stalks Helen and M.J. and Reuben give protection to her. Will they be capable to stop Foley before the next murder?"Copycat" is an effective thriller from the 90's and certainly among the best ones. The performances of Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter are great and Holly Hunter is a great surprise as a detective in a thriller. There are many movies about serial-killers and the great difference in "Copycat" is two women in the lead roles. The identity of the killer is disclosed too soon and could be kept as a mystery; but anyway the character is not connected to Helen, Andy, M.J. or Reuben and it would not be possible to have a twist or a major surprise if the mystery was kept. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Copycat - A Vida Imita a Morte" ("Copycat – The Life Imitates The Death")