Kiss the Girls . Tucson Weekly . 10-13-97

Kiss the Girls

DIRECTED BY: Gary Fleder

REVIEWED: 10-13-97

Few girls get kissed, and when they do they don't like it. If that's your idea of a good time, you might enjoy this derivative sicko flick about a kidnapper of beautiful women who locks them in a dungeon and forces them to act like they love him--but don't count on it. Morgan Freeman, as a detective trying to track "Casanova" down, seems positively bored by his role, and the ennui is contagious. I'm sure having to play a carbon copy of his Seven character, deliver knowing lines like "This guy's a collector," and wear a Mod Squad-ish leather jacket without any accompanying groovy music didn't help Freeman's enthusiasm any. Perhaps he was attracted to the film because it teams him up with Ashley Judd, whose tough-spirited character escapes the kidnapper/rapist/killer and tries to help Freeman solve the case. Unfortunately, there's no room in the script for the feisty Judd and the sagely Freeman to display any romantic tension or even personality, so the movie just turns into another by-the-numbers killer thriller with a few predictable "twists." Ho hum. The only original, amusing moment happens at the end, when Freeman fires a gun point-blank through a carton of milk, prompting one viewer to comment, "Got Milk?" But that's nothing you couldn't try at home.

--Woodruff

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