Body Shots (1999)
Directed by Michael Cristofer
The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of possibilities, eight 20-somethings take to the clubs seeking good times, companionship and maybe a little sex. But in the harsh light of the morning after, their worlds are thrown into a spin of confusion when hungover Sara accuses hard-partying Mike of date rape. Loyalties are tested as each among them is forced to take sides.
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Michael is played by Jerry O'Connell (1999's "Body Shots"), a bright-faced veteran actor best known for playing the chubby, scaredy-cat Vern in 1986's "Stand by Me." O'Connell runs with the part, and goes all out in embarrassing himself in certain scenes, but he can't overcome the fact that Michael isn't a particularly interesting or amiable individual.
Yet, the way in which writer/director Michael Cristofer (the director of "Body Shots" and HBO's "Gia" and adaptive screenwriter of "The Witches of Eastwick" and "The Bonfire of the Vanities") has adapted Woolrich's work robs all of that material of the necessary passion needed to make any of it work.
The actors have so little chemistry delivering tired dialogue that the sluggish direction by Michael Cristofer (coming off the equally ludicrous Body Shots) is merely the final insult.
It's not hard to believe this mess came from writer/director Michael Cristofer, whose previous film was the unwatchable, chauvinistic "Body Shots."
Writer-director Michael Cristofer, a marked man for the 1999 rape thriller "Body Shots," aimed for pulpy luridness, but left the suspense in his trailer.
Cineast Factor: From Michael Cristofer, who directed Body Shots.