a5c7b9f00b A female PI babysitting for a boyfriend gets stuck with his daughter and the case of her murdered father. Disappointed in Murray, V.I. picks up a man in a bar. He hires her to look after Kat, his foul-mouthed daughter, while he goes to look into some shady business. He gets killed and Kat hires V.I. to find the killer. This movie hates you. It likes to see you suffer. It wants to make you cry. If you watch it, it will inflict horrible pain upon you in so many nasty ways. It will punch you in the nose, kick you in the groin, strenuously apply a ball-peen hammer to your kneecaps, extract your teeth in slow motion, and assault you with a hail of noogies, wedgies, and Indian sunburns. If you are a masochist, see this movie! Watch it over and over, rewinding frequently and going through the really stinky parts in slow motion.<br/><br/>But if you&#39;re like the rest of us, avoid this movie like armpit lice! It means to do you terrible harm, I tell you!<br/><br/>I think this movie hates Kathleen Turner, too. It certainly made her look stupid…<br/><br/>Rating: 2 on my Manos scale I have just seen Kathleen Turnjer in &quot;V.I. Warshawski&quot; for the third time and, for the third time, am at a total loss to understand the panning/overall rating of 4.3 awarded to it by previous reviewers. I think the movie DOES reflect a lot of the Paretsky original novels and think Turner does a good job in portraying &quot;the dick from the dock&quot; in a manner which combines both respect for the literary character and the kind of gritty, down-to-earth film noir genre which the film obviously pays its debts to. This latter aspect is particularly apparent in the DIALOGUE, much of which my wife and I found hysterical and easily on a par with such remakes of Chandlerthe &quot;Farewell, My Lovely&quot; version of the 1970s with Robert Mitchum and Charlotte Rampling. Like the letter, &quot;V.I.&quot; is not going to be rated&quot;The Maltese Falcon&quot; or &quot;The Big Sleep&quot; of the 1990s, but I still think it is a sound, entertaining and engaging piece of work, which does not deserve the reviews mentioned above. Now that we are past the &quot;Blow &#39;em up / SFX-dominated&quot; fayre of &quot;Die Hard 27&quot;or whatever, is it time for a follow-up to what was, in my view, sadly, Turner&#39;s sole donning of the red glitter shoes of V.I. with another actress in the role?
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