Bound

1996

Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller

75
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 83% · 71 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 66370 66.4K

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Plot summary

Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.

Director

Andy Wachowski Photo
Andy Wachowski

Top cast

John P. Ryan Photo
John P. Ryan as Micky Malnato
Jennifer Tilly Photo
Jennifer Tilly as Violet
Christopher Meloni Photo
Christopher Meloni as Johnnie Marzzone
Peter Spellos Photo
Peter Spellos as Lou
1080p.BluRay
1.64 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 49 min
Seeds 84

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by athanasiosze 7 / 10

7.3/10. Recommended.

I don't know why i didn't watch it earlier. This is a very good crime/drama/thriller, it kept me on the edge of my seat after the first "introductory" 20-30 minutes. A good 90's movie with the positives and the negatives of a typical 90's movie (Entertaining, intense, naive, unrealistic, charismatic actors, plot holes, no lecturing etc). Gershon and Pantoliano were great, Tilly, well, plays always the same character but in this movie, this character fits well.So, a good movie which doesn't take itself too seriously but still, it's intense and made me invested.Not the most realistic ending in history but satisfying.
Reviewed by camachoborracho 8 / 10

Stunning directorial debut by Wachowskis

Bound is a film for which I have mixed feelings: it looks and feels amazing, the cinematography, acting, directing, costumes, wardrobe, props, colors, moods, etc. feel like a graphic novel brought to life. Yet on the other hand there is something that smacks of "aren't we cool for doing x?" - I guess the lesbian scenes and camera work were what did this so as to give it a punk/hip feel (then again, this is not long after Pulp Fiction came out so everyone was doing it).Having seen the Matrix 1-3 I can understand and appreciate the camera work on second viewing, but it feels like the Wachowski brothers were pushing the lesbian eroticism for the sake of shock and males in the audience. It definitely seems to be directed by males insofar as the sex scenes go (the female body is both fetishist and problematized as a threat to men throughout the film too, but that's a different subject altogether), but these are more artsy than "Skinemax" night flicks in that there is very little nudity, it was tastefully shown for the most part and a lot was told with sounds and shadows. (Personally, I think the lesbians were there for shock since a male lover would have worked just as well, but in general I think some more subtlety could have been used in the sex scenes myself since imagining it is sexier IMHO).That said, the first half, which establishes character, does seem to drag quite a bit, but once the caper gets going it never stops. You also feel for all of the characters - surprisingly, I felt the most for Cesar, the "villain" of the piece (perhaps because of an amazing shot when he opens the briefcase and then the world seems out of whack as we look up at him).I can't really find anything "wrong" with this film per se and it is a good film although I could have easily fast forwarded the first half and got roughly the same effect. Still I could watch this film over and over again for the way it was shot since it is amazing and there are a lot of techniques and style one can learn from it, plus the story is great too. So for this I give the film8 out of 10 stars. Definitely worth a watch, although some of you more conservative folks might be a little put off by the lesbian scenes.
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