Kiss the Girls

1997 "Smart girls. Pretty girls. Missing girls."
6.6| 1h55m| R| en
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Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.

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Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.
Listonixio Fresh and Exciting
Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
chimera3 It was through this awesome film that I became a fan of James Patterson's work. I don't know how I got to being introduced to this movie but I am certainly glad that I did. When I first saw it, I was a wee bit surprised at the interesting plot twist in the end. After watching it for a few more times after that, it didn't surprise me. The book is just as scary and suspenseful and the movie, aside from a few subtle differences, sticks pretty faithful to the book. I would recommend it to anyone, but I would suggest to watch the movie first and then read the book.Morgan Freeman is the perfect image of Alex Cross. I couldn't see anyone else fulfill that role better than him. Ashley Judd is the perfect complement to him as Kate McTiernan. Unlike some typical mystery movies involving kidnapped women, she is not the typical dizzy damsel-in-distress (which drives me nuts) but the direct opposite: a captive who fights free and does battle with the chief villain.When it comes to the on-screen chemistry, Morgan and Ashley click. It isn't like they're doing it just to do it; they do it because that's how their characters are. And then there's Cary Elwes, the man who would later be in a few of the "Saw" movies. He takes on the role of Officer Nick Ruskin and runs with it. When I first saw the movie, I would never have pictured him as a villain. After seeing this a few times and then the "last" of the "Saw" movies (before I even knew that they were making another one), I could see that he was excellent when it came to being the lead villain alongside Tony Goldwyn (who, for all intents and purposes, was nothing more than an angry second banana here), whom most of us knew through his days in "Ghost" as the traitorous best friend.Love it or hate it, this is filled with suspense from top to bottom. If there were ever a replay value for certain movies as with video games, my guess is that the value would be high. My word of advice: don't go into this thinking that you will have what I call a formula mystery movie. You might be pleasantly surprised, I promise.
2karl- heres a film straight out of a thriller book called kiss the girls by James Paterson a great author for twist in his book so in this film we see that Alex cross played by an excellent Morgan freeman searching for his his niece but with unsolved cases of missing women Alex loves solving the insolvable but with time running out the rest of the cast we Dr Kate mctiernan who is a doctor but is person who likes sports but is feisty character played by Ashley Judd but as we cut back to women being takes Casanova a great lover of collectible items of dreamshis plans for the women he took in his lair being carefully no give the evidence away but with a twist in the tale he plans his next victim but when one of them escapes .she makes it known that she that Alex crosses niece can be got but in a race against time to figure out where she was an who was holding them but with a film like this you don't know who the good guy or bad guy is so figuring out will leave a twist and shock you as the scenery is beautiful shot in the deep south this is a good stylish thriller that will leave you wanting a sequel 7/10and my 90 review
WellnessGuy Currently rated at 6.5 on IMDb. Too many poor movies in the range 5.5 to 6.5. And some truly abysmal ones.This is not a poor movie. It has it's flaws, particularly the handwriting discovery towards the end - just not believable. But all round this is a good movie. Don't discard it based on the current IMDb rating. It is definitely worth watching. Both Freeman and Judd turn in great performances, as does Cary Elwes. Jeremy Piven and Tony Goldwyn put in their usual competent work, but they only appear briefly. The storyline has some nice twists, too. There are lots of good reviews here if you want to know more about the film. Mine is just to encourage you to not dismiss it out of hand.
videorama-759-859391 Really, I had to watch Kiss The Girls a few times to appreciate it. Is it up in the same league as the brilliant, scarring and nightmarish Se7en? No, but still this one really entertains, and bringing with it, a style too. Violence is scarce, very scarce including one shock moment in the grueling climax, which I must say I did enjoy. Morgan Freeman, brings another fine piece of acting as well as a solid performance, obviously a researcher of roles, who hones his craft. He's well supported by Ashley Judd, the first victim to escape the clutches of a psycho snatching young woman, girls, he picks, keeping them in an underground lair (an effective and nightmarish atmosphere sphere here) days, before killing them. An incentive which has put forensic profiler, novelist, Alex Cross (Freeman) is that this psycho keeper has Freeman's niece. Revealing the killer too early, I thought to myself, what the hell? but later I realized there was more to it. He wasn't the main player. Cary Elwes was particularly good with the southern accent, a cop, assisting Freeman, while Elwes's partner, Sykes (Alex McCarthur) another versatile performer, Who really at moments, has you thinking he's rotten, I liked too. There are other good performances too, where I liked that Jeremy Piven was in this. There was, for some reason, at times, Ashley Judd got on my nerves, where the interrogation scene between the professor, a suspect, and Freeman, which got too close for comforting, eventuating into a physical contact, was my favorite. A different and refreshing serial killer movie, in terms of idea, that of course can't match up to Morgan's other SK pic, masterpiece, two years earlier.