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Title: AN EROTIC "THRILLER" WEIGHED DOWN BY ITS OWN DEBAUCHERY
Review: "In the Cut" is an excruciating "erotic thriller" (or that's what it was at least going for) about a college professor who becomes involved with a New York City homicide detective investigating a string of grisly murders.Would have been great to see Meg Ryan change her chick-flick love-comedy stereotype for something more meaningful, but this unnecessarily coarse script isn't it. Not even with the same stylish visual rubric that "The Piano" was wrapped in (same director.)Sadly, helped by an unremittingly cheerless script, this urban-noir tale suffocates under the weight of its own self-importance. Sleaze does not make substance, and outright lewd banality cannot be shrugged off under pretense of faux weightiness -- the obvious poverty of this script is still evident through the liberal dose of raunchy sex scenes and pretentious dialogue.May be a worthwhile rental, but I wouldn't cancel any plans for it.
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