Kiss the Girls A Movie Review	MPAA Rated - R It's 1:51 Long A Review by Stu Gotz

I didn't like "Kiss The Girls," but I didn't dislike it either (does that make sense?). What I really didn't like about this movie was that it was predictable and somewhat unbelievable in your typical Hollywood suspense/thriller cliché style. What's unbelievable? First off, there is no way in hell any law enforcement agency would allow its own officers, much less one from another jurisdiction, to partake in an abduction/murder investigation where the officer in question has an emotional attachment to the case, except for maybe the dingleberrys at the LAPD. But anyway, this is the case with Washington D.C. forensics' psychologist, Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman), assisting the FBI with an investigation where his niece is abducted. Now I realize Morgan is the star of this movie, but do you really expect me to believe that his instinct & intuition, aided by a kick-boxing and recently abducted but escaped intern, Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd), and a local college student is better than that of a FBI task force? I don't think so.

Alright, wait a minute. Before I jump the gun, here's a little plot summary. Cross' niece gets abducted in this North Carolina city, Cross sets out to find the kidnapper, Cross infiltrates the Durham police department, Cross saves Kate with his medical diagnosis, Cross tracks himself to L.A. following a clue, Cross botches the capture, Cross heads back to N.C., Cross botches another capture attempt, Cross kills the kidnapper/murderer. How's that?

Anyway, back to insulting me. Now they toss me this scene: Cross decides to follow a suspect into an L.A. night club and won't be noticed because, as he puts it, he has "20 years of experience blending in," or something like that. Yeah. Sure. Two, 50 year old black men do not "blend" in a predominately white, L.A., yuppie night club, especially not dressed the way they were. And my last insult: At the end, Cross realizes who the killer is and tries to call to warn Ashley, but the killer is in the house with her and has cut the line to one phone. Who the hell in the 1990's has only one phone in a split level house? Give me a fucking break! Who wrote this shit?!?

I will say that the movie did have a neat but completely predicable twist to it, and honestly did try to be suspenseful. Sadly the movie was not suspenseful at all, and I'd have to say that "Kiss the Girls" is a sad mix of "Seven," a good movie which also starred Freeman, and "Jennifer 8," a shitty psycho-suspense-thriller. I give "Kiss the Girls" 2 of 5 stars and I'm Stu Gotz. Wait for it on cable and then watch something else. 'Nuff said.