Review – In the Cut

For years I’ve wondered what might happen if someone tried to combine Hollywood production values and big-name stars with explicit sex. Somehow I’d imagined something better than this (though in retrospect I can’t imagine why). Once you get over the whole cutesy-little-Meg-Ryan’s-in-a-dirty-movie thing, there just isn’t that much else to this picture. The script is bad, and the acting is average at best. Much of the dialogue is stiff, and the mystery element is left holding far too much of the bag, especially considering it’s not really all that mysterious. I’ll give this an E for effort just in hope that in the future big-budget productions can work this openly with sex only with more honest results. See if desperate