Bound -1996-

Better Than Chocolate A sexy rom of love and lust with surprising results. Maggie meets the woman of her dreams kim just hours before her mother lilia and brother paul move in with her. When the four end up sharing a loft maggie believes she must keep her affair a secret. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent....	Gia (Unrated Edition) Its the late 70s in new york - studio 54 designer jeans drugs & disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or any woman - she wants. Sex money glamour fame..Its all within her reach. Shes a goddess. Shes a star. Her name is gia. Studio: Hbo Home Vide...	If These Walls Could Talk 2 HBO caused a stir when it aired If These Walls Could Talk, a portrait of three women from three generations (all who occupied the same house at various times) who had unwanted pregnancies. HBO utilizes the same gimmick in the sequel, this time telling the story of women who love ...	High Art Syd (Radha Mitchell) is an editor at a painfully pretentious art magazine; by chance, she becomes acquainted with lesbian photographer Lucy (Ally Sheedy) and her weirdo German girlfriend (Patricia Clarkson, in a strange Dietrich-like role). Syd becomes captivated with Lucy and ...	Lost and Delirious
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Real suspense, at last
At this moment is really hard to find some movie with real suspense, in BOUND you'll find a lot of it.

This violence-porn fantasy film is probably
This violence-porn fantasy film is probably required viewing for Arab terrorists. It looks like a technologically updated "reefer madness" film-noir of the fifties that FBI agents were required to sit through before they were sent out into the field to battle illegal drugs. The mental level is 3rd grade, the sex and violence are Narcissus-inspired and the reek is sweaty armpits. All and all, it's a painful bagful of visual cliches and verbal f*ck-s*ck that insinuates itself into the the senses like an Anne Hutchinson inspired John Winthrop nightmare. It has great value, I'm afraid, as an example of the depths to which some American psyches have sunk, unwittingly it seems. Ironically, I can't criticize the film the way it should be criticized because Amazon would censor it. Too bad.

A modern noir spiced with style and a visual touch of class!
A handywoman (the alluring Gina Gershon) and a gangster's moll (the sensual Jennifer Tilly) fall in love and plan to run off with two millions bucks. This simple plot is enriched and even enhanced with a not so common visual refinement, and enough tension to capture your whole interest from start to finish. As you may expect, there is a dose of acidic humour all long the movie but Joe Pantoliano steal the show as the gangster who suddenly finds himself trapped in the middle of the road and has to think faster than the speed of life. Entertained and extremely sexy-thriller.

BOUND
DVD arrived in the promised condition and within the time frame. I would purchase from this seller again.

Not free from issues, but definitely better than expected...
I really expected very little from this film. I knew that it had a big cult following, but so does `Showgirls', and lord knows how dreadfully ridiculous that trash was. So, it's safe to say that at best I was expecting another `Poison Ivy', you know, equipped with a decent performance or two but ultimately void of any real merit. While in parts I believe my initial preconceived notion of the film is correct, there is much to enjoy here that I wasn't expecting. Sure, I expected to enjoy the whole `girl on girl' gangster side of things, but when you remove the `girl on girl' part there is actually still a pretty decent movie here. The film tells us of Violet, an attractive woman dating a violent gangster. Violet has repressed feelings for other women that become manifest when she meets Corky, an ex-con who is hired to maintain the building Violet and Caesar are residing in. Corky is instantly attracted to Violet, and the feelings are mutual. They soon concoct a plan to steal two million dollars from the mob and set up Caesar to take the fall, this way they can be free to love one another without restraint. Their plan isn't as foolproof as they originally conclude, and so things start to savagely unravel as Caesar's business partners get involved and soon Corky and Violet are exposed, and they have to fight for their lives. The first part of the film tends to drag a bit. It comes off rather ridiculous in scenes, overdoing the steamy sections in order to compensate for lack of `action'. It really comes off like a soft-core adult film at first, thus confirming my initial thoughts. But, as the film progresses and our attention is shifted towards the money and the scheme it all starts to elevate to a decently crafted and well filmed caper. It really works. The final scenes are stunning in moments and truly chilling. The acting also gets a major boost as the film progresses. What came off at first like amateur fluff transforms to smartly calculated character development, especially from Jennifer Tilly who transforms Violet from a ditzy girlfriend to a deceptive and intelligent `girlfriend'. Joe Pantoliano (from `Sopranos' fame) also delivers a strong performance. He works with his characters clichés well and filters through feelings of betrayal and fear quite nicely. Gina Gershon (who was actually the only respectable part of `Showgirls') is nice eye-candy here, but she takes a backseat to Tilly's breathy performance. The film is not perfect, and it really could have used a little tightening and reworking (especially in the beginning), but it works itself out and deserves recognition for that. I am baffled a bit by all the reviews of adoration for this film, because one should not be blind to the films problems, but I do feel that the film is no where near as bad as it could have been. A film that could have easily been an F, or at best a low D rises above itself in the final chapter and becomes a solid C, C+ even. Sure, that may sound like a low rating, but when you factor in the films genre you can see that a C is actually pretty good.