A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once rebuffed him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but a horrific accident leaves her at his mercy.
Fenn's slow-motion fountain-bathing scene looks like an over-the-top TV commercial, the cop-out finale is a film-school cliche, and the male characters are so one-dimensional and pathetic that the movie could inspire a Men's Action Coalition.
– John Hartl,
Film.com,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
What Ms. Lynch has given us is a prettied-up snuff movie.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
What Lynch, who wrote the script at 19, sees as high drama is really high camp.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2001
fresh:
s. Lynch has both talent and a point. Her film is by no means the gory, exploitative quasi-pornography that it sounds like from afar.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
It's probably just as well that last-minute dropouts Kim Basinger or Madonna didn't take the title role, as the presence of a star lurking powerlessly on the little platform no doubt would have been distracting and more laughable than it [is] now.