Sliver

Starring: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Martin Landau,
Directed by: Phillip Noyce
Rating: R
Genre: Thriller, Romance
1993
Times Seen:
Tim: 1

Summary: A successful woman (Sharon Stone) moves into a high rise building, where we befriends two men (William Baldwin, Tom Berenger), and begins to suspect one of them in a serous of killings which occur in the building.

Review:

Tim: This is not a good movie. After the success of Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone thought she'd score another success with this sex thriller. However, as good as Basic Instinct was, this movie is equally bad. The film is just poor quality, from start to finish. The movie is completely ridiculous and unbelievable, and after thirty minutes in, I was just praying for the film to end. Thankfully, it's fairly short at 108 minutes.

Sharon Stone is not good in it. It is almost humorous how serious she takes the role, seemingly unaware of the massive bomb she's in. William Baldwin is likewise campy and silly. These two together are just awful. Add in a ridiculous performance by Tom Berenger (way too over-the-top, which is actually hard to believe), and you have a trifecta of poor performers.

The script is terrible. I don't know much about the novel the movie is based on, but I have to believe there was something lost in the transition to the big screen. This movie simply doesn't work. Worst of all is how it tries to duplicate successful erotic thrillers. None of this translates well, and we're left watching a silly movie that does very little right.

Sliver does seem to start to be building toward something. For a few minutes at the film's beginning, I wondered if this could be a decent movie. However, the further you get into the movie, the more you realize this movie is just not worth watching.

Rating 1-10
Tim's Rating- 5



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