Judas Kiss (1998)

Average rating

(48%)

Starring:	Simon Baker-Denny \| Carla Gugino \| Gil Bellows \| Alan Rickman \| Til Schweiger \| Emma Thompson
Director:	Sebastian Gutierrez
Studio:	CINEMA CLUB
Run time:	98 mins
Genres:	Drama
Languages:	English
Released:	October 28, 2002

A woman and her lover who have made money by running sex scams decide to go for the big time and kidnap the owner of a computer company. Things go wrong when the wife of a senator is killed during the kidnapping...

Rating of 3 stars out of 5

When a gang kidnaps a computer genius, a woman gets killed in the scrum. Turns out that she's the wife of a senator and then … well, that's just one twist in this exceedingly strange thriller. Film buffs will go wink-wink, nudge-nudge at how the director, Sebastian Gutierrez, grafts the influence of Pedro Almodovar onto Quentin Tarantino: the first few minutes are pornography, then it's a legit thriller, then it goes all weird again, and that's before — wait for it — Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman appear as New Orleans cops. Thompson does a Frances McDormand in Fargo: she's tough, funny and has a honey of a scene on a train. She also gets her beau, Greg Wise, to play the kidnap victim. As for Rickman — his accent is as broad as Texas and it's a creepily unreal performance. Made for cable TV, this could become a cult.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 1 stars
Played for laughs?

RedKite from Staffordshire, 23rd June, 2005

Well, we gave it a good try, but found ourselves turning this off after about 40 mins. The plot and characters just didn't engage us. I loved the OTT slutty clothes worn by the female kidnapper, though ;-) !!

I hired this film due to the presence of Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. They both played US cops, with atrocious US accents. We kept half expecting them to break into laughter - I know that we did! Both me and my husband spent time trying to decide whether this pair were playing the parts for laughs.

So, a big disappointment and a waste of Alan and Emma's time and talent...

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Rated 3 stars
Surprisingly enjoyable

A Customer from Milton Keynes, 6th January, 2010

Apart from a few dodgy (and somewhat distracting) Southern accents, this was a surprisingly enjoyable thriller. I'll admit, I rented it solely on the basis that it had Simon Baker in it, but was pleased to find it had other, far more entertaining, merits. The plot starts out as a standard kidnap caper, before a few twists along the way turn it into something more. As always, Alan Rickman excels, as he does in whatever role he's in, but for me, the star of the show was Emma Thompson. Her roller-skating, wise-cracking FBI agent stole every scene she was in. And I didn't see that final betrayal coming. A good film for a lazy afternoon or evening - as long as you aren't expecting Oscar quality, this is a fun, amusing ride.

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