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Second Skin | Year: 2000 Classification: Drama Directed: - Darrell Roodt Actors/Actresses: - Natasha Henstridge - Angus MacFadyen - Angus Macfadyen Joins the film noir greats A small low budget film with little or no publicity could join the noir greats. It has all the classic ingredients - an ice cool blonde, a bad bad gangster, and a savage twist at the end. some really interesting effects from the director with cross and jump cutting. Liked every bit of it. I have not enjoyed a film noir so much since Blood Simple. Stylish, twisty noir Second Skin is a very nicely realized contemporary noir tale that is considerably elevated above the usual "cable noir" junk by its beautiful photography, icy score, and the remarkable beauty and underrated acting of Natasha Henstridge, who has never been sexier or more controlled in her performance. The director makes the most of his Cape Town locations, which look enough like the California coast to make you forget this was shot anywhere else. The plot doesn't break much new ground, but it delivers a very surprising final twist. Fans of Henstridge and the genre wont be disappointed. Not good. Henstridge is the best thing in this. Angus Mc-whats-his-name is atrociously bad. Mind numbingly, indescribably terrible. Perhaps the worst acting I have ever seen outside of "Battlefield Earth". The plot of this thing is dumb-o. At the end it was aiming to be "daughter-of-Basic-Instinct" - and missing that particular target by about a zillion miles. This isn't even good B-movie fare. It is very bad maybe Z-movie fare. I think I am gonna use the DVD for wind chimes. I flat out loved it! What more can I say? Buy the movie; you'll want to watch it over and over! Buy Second Skin at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Second Skin Search with the Priority Search Engine on Second Skin This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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