So much average

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This is my first review on IMDb and I've chosen In the Cut because I think it's simply the most underrated film ever made. The perspicacious manner in which the characters subtly squirm into their respective roles is scintillating. This film is sexy and its dark and quintessentially so. I love Mark Ruffalo, he's almost seedy to the point of criminality yet is able to encapsulate a determined sexual energy that he superimposes upon the frigidity of Meg Ryan - who is gorgeous in this, if nothing else she's real and vulnerable, a great performance. Don't expect this film to create the perfect theatrical arc, it won't. Allow the atmosphere of unsettling mystery and damaged persona into your thinking and this becomes a dark portrayal of sexual frustration, licentiousness and fear. It's all about the frailty of the human condition. This is Campion at her best.

"In the Cut" works pretty well on the level of serial-killer-thriller; some genuinely gripping moments and a well rounded, albeit rather predictable conclusion.But the murder mystery stuff is not where this film really shines. Here is a love story which takes our longing for love and fulfilment and holds it up against a red brothel light. The performances are terrific, the characters are complex and the examination of our sexuality is bold and unflinching.A hostile, seedy world is conjured in dense dream-like atmosphere, where the hope of fairytale romance grows ever more desperate. So it is all the more profound when here amongst the dark, shabby squalor we glimpse truth, purity and beauty.

Ehrrr... It's like "Se7en" for the ladies, maybe? I had mixed feelings about this one, story-wise. I didn't really like the ending, but I did like the very last shot of the film. And besides, this movie's got other things going for it... The cinematography, for example (you guys were expecting me to say something about Meg Ryan going gratuitously nude in this one, right?). By the way, you American DVD-renters got dissed again: the fellatio-scene in the beginning of the movie is cut in the regular rentals. My European version wasn't (but I've heard you guys do have an "Uncut Director's Edition"). Oh, and what was up with the numerous random shots portraying an American flag throughout the whole movie? Anybody got an explanation? Anyway, "In The Cut" is worth a watch, if not alone for the buzz it caused upon its release.

It's different and if you are a Meg Ryan fan then you should check it out.However only if you are willing to watch her go completely out will the boundaries of anything you have come to know and love her in. I hate when i'm watching a film and an actress i love ends up naked without any reason. So yes I see why folk slam this, there is a lot of nudity, most of It Ryan's however it is integral to the story. Admittedly there could have been a lot less of it.I wasn't expecting much given that i though i was sitting down to watch "against the ropes" on the TV. The sexual nature almost made me turn the TV off but the performances from both Ryan and Ruffalo are so engaging. Given a chance the story is also something you can easily get into. By the end of it I loved it.Actors are constantly slammed for not going out there comfort zone, yet here is someone so far out of her "cumfy" zone its like an alternate universe. Handeling it so well, she deserves so much more praise than she ever got.I've never seen another Campion movie but this was handled well and i may look into some more of her work but only if its story out weighs the explicit content.Watch it, only if you are willing to see Ryan do something against type. It's more powerful than any Julia Roberts performance.