SoftInloveRox
Horrible, fascist and poorly acted
Donald Seymour
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Aneesa Wardle
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Anoushka Slater
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Michael_Elliott
Body of Evidence (1993) ** (out of 4)Rebecca Carlson (Madonna) is arrested for the murder of her lover. How did she kill him? She is accused by the prosecutor (Joe Mantegna) of slipping him some cocaine and using kinky sex to make his heart give out. Her lawyer Frank Dulaney (Willem Dafoe) takes the case and soon starts to fall for her sexual nature.After the huge success of BASIC INSTINCT there were all sorts of erotic thrillers being released. Some of them were quite good while others were downright horrible. Both COLOR OF NIGHT and BODY OF EVIDENCE are considered the worst of the bunch and there are good reasons why. Both films are rather poorly director and have screenplays that wouldn't cut it on a made-for-television film.As you watch the movie you're suddenly hitten with the fact that Madonna really can't act. Just take a look at the scene early on at the funeral where she's suppose to be heartbroken. The performance is just flat-out bad and it actually gets laughable at times. Even during the courtroom scenes Madonna basically just sits in a chair and gives a various of recation shots. There's just nothing here. Well, she at least knows how to take her clothes off and show off some sexuality but the direction keeps the film from ever becoming erotic.The screenplay is really all over the place and rarely does it make much sense. Heck, we hear about the murder and then within minutes we're already at the trial. We never fully get to know any of the characters and the various twists and turns are all rather bland. The film is desperately trying to be another BASIC INSTINCT but its just not happening and in the end the film just comes across as a really cheap wannabe that lacks any drama or sexuality.With that all being said, take a look at this cast! Yes, Madonna gets the lead because her sexuality was what was meant to sell the picture. Then you've got Dafoe and Mantegna playing the layers. Then you've got Julianne Moore playing Dafoe's wife. Tehre's Anne Archer in the role of the dead man's secretary. It doesn't stop there because you also get character actor Charles Hallahan and Frank Langella comes out of nowhere for his rather strange role. Why on Earth did all of these people sign on for this?
jovana-13676
Madonna's acting is not as bad as the script is. In fact, I don't think that Madonna is a bad actress at all. When presented with a good material, she delivers. But she tends to pick the characters that match her public persona. In this film, Madonna's body is a thing of beauty to look at and admire. She channels the actresses of the classic Hollywood era, which I adore, and has the best boobs in the history of Hollywood.
Alyssa Black (Aly200)
What could have been a well executed and suspenseful murder mystery is instead an erotic thriller that is clichéd and poorly strung together and just wastes the talents involved.In one of the worst performances of her short-lived career is Madonna as the film's femme fatale accused of the murder of her wealthy lover, but of course the clichéd question is: did she do it? While the "Material Girl" singer did turn in a lauded performance in "Desperately Seeking Susan" a few years prior, the singer turned actress is blander than watching paint dry in this film. The filmmakers seemed to have only cast the actress for her scandalous sexuality and for provocative imagery. There is no substance to Madonna's work as she just looks pretty and delivers horrible dialogue that is just cringe-worthy and reeking of amateur screen writing. While the singer was given her choice of leading man, there is zero chemistry between her and costar Willem Dafoe whose talented is even more ill-used; coming off as a pairing we could care less about. Madonna ended up garnering her first Razzie for her abysmal performance, which was truly earned. A true victim of this train-wreck with wasted acting is Madonna's ill-fated costar Willem Dafoe as her defense attorney who gets pulled into a dangerous web of sex, lies and murder. The actor truly gives the film his best effort, but if the viewer looks carefully one can see the actor is not enjoying the material he is given. While playing an anti-hero of sorts has paid off for Dafoe in other roles, here it's difficult to try and watch such a talented performer deliver equally cringing lines with an utter lack of enthusiasm. Even Dafoe's chemistry with Julianne Moore as his wife is completely lacking as Moore is hardly given anything to work with and like Dafoe, doesn't appear to want to be in the film. Dafoe received his first Razzie nomination, but got lucky to lose out, but why he agreed to take the gig is beyond comprehension. The film's premise is promising enough to make one curious to see the film. However sitting through about one hour and forty-some minutes of horrible dialogue, bad acting, completely lifeless sex scenes and a bland clichéd ending is not worth the time. Some will defend this schlock-fest, but it really is worthy of the harsh criticism.
jessegehrig
Perfect proof that great movies are made by accident- because Body Of Evidence was no accident, it was somebody's plan A. Someone actually thought this movie was a million dollar idea,f*cking Christ. So many talented and dynamic actors wasted in one movie- Dafoe, Mantegna, Moore, Prochnow, Langella. Wasted so self-important Madonna can be a big movie star, wasted! Wow, leave it to Madonna to make sex boring. If Madonna is a feminist icon, I would say that the women of the world have truly been cheated. Feminists, you can do better than Madonna, literally every woman in the world is a more suitable feminist icon than Madonna. This is some of what the world is made of.