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Reviews
Dangerous Touch (1994)
Okayish.
Half of the movie is sex and nudity. Maybe you should just watch an adult film instead. The story wasn't so bad though I guess. It is about a sexually promiscuous woman, who goes into the wrong hands of a man named Mike. I think Mike was a miscast. Mike should be someone who is suave, devilishly handsome, charismatic... The actor does not really fit that role. I can see Kate Vernon sleeping with him once maybe, but I don't see her being enamored by him and following his every word. Secondly, the ending made it seem like Mike's blackmail of Kate Vernon was a waste of time, which made me wonder what the point of all his hard work was. Thirdly, I don't know how Mike found out who her patients were.
Overall, the story is kind of hard to believe. It just seemed like a stupid plan all along. Mike is going to have sex with this woman to blackmail her, just so that he can have her record her criminal patient talk so that Mike can take him out? Seems like he could've made a better plan. And just to end up with Kate Vernon's character not following through with the plan. What a letdown! Still, it keeps you interested till the end and that's good.
Boulevard (1994)
Okay.
This is a story about an abused woman named Jennefer who leaves her awful husband and flees to Toronto. She gets tangled in the world of prostitution. Jennefer is kind of stupid and dramatic. For some reason, while she is homeless on the streets of Toronto, she confides in a pimp named Hassan (which is a weird name, since it is Arabic and Lou Diamond Phillips looks East Asian). You're just going to step into a car with suspicious dude? She even goes to his apartment despite Ola's warnings and hardly knowing the man. Also, although Jennefer is adequate and healthy, she is unable to get a job (which is also weird), so she turns to become a prostitute like Ola (which is even weirder because Jennefer said at the beginning that she could never do a job like that). And when she's not being stupid, she is screaming and crying all the time. Like ALL THE TIME. She's just too trustworthy and naive. I just feel that her character is overdone. Hassan: Hassan is an interesting character. He is violent and if his prostitutes mess with him, they pay with their lives. I like his pimp rod. Lance Henriksen is the police officer, who for some reason doesn't do anything when he knows about this prostitution ring. If he knew all about these prostitutes, I would expect him to know about Hassan and the prostitute who was killed, so why not just arrest Hassan in the first place as a suspect in the crime? Ola: When Hassan was arrested, I don't understand why she didn't just leave like she wanted to. Hassan is no longer threatening her to prostitute herself, so why does she bother? Instead she chooses to stay for some reason. I also think it's odd that Ola let Jennefer prostitute herself. If you're trying to protect Jennefer and you hate your life as it is, why would you want Jennefer to be entangled in it? And like another person has posted, I don't understand why the ticket salesman told that creepy husband of hers where she went. Also, there is a lot of nudity in this film that is not really necessary. Why must I see Jennefer naked in the shower like three times?!? Overall, this is a movie that seems to assume that men are bad and women are good. I think it conveys a good depiction of the lives of prostitutes. From this film, I feel more sorry for those who lead these types of lives, but some parts of the film didn't really make much sense.