Review of Body of Evidence
Introduction
Widely held to be the worst courtroom drama ever made, Body Of Evidence was probably the highest-profile miscalculation of Madonna`s early movie career. One of the Basic Instinct clones in vogue in the early 1990s, the story was a potboiler about a woman accused of bonking her billionaire boyfriend to death. Her lawyer (Willem Dafoe) falls for her charms and soon they are doing the dirty.
Body Of Evidence coincides with Madonna`s "Erotica" phase, and viewed alongside that album and her metal-bound scrapbook "Sex", makes sense as a project for her to be involved in. Unfortunately, she and her fellow cast members are let down by an appalling script and a director and cinematographer without an iota of understanding of sensuality.
The cast gamely do their best with the material provided, but in the long run the result falls pretty short of the mark. The bottom line is this is a run-of-the-mill courtroom drama spiced up by a handful of not very becoming nookie scenes.
If you`re after a decent courtroom drama, look elsewhere (like Twelve Angry Men), and if you`re just after a quick perve... I`ll not make a recommendation.
Video
Presented in its original 1.85:1 in anamorphic widescreen, the picture looks very good. There are no signs of wear and tear, and no digital artefacts. Colours are rich and the transfer has an excellent film noir look. It`s just a shame the story isn`t as good.
Audio
The sound is in Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround.
Features
Nothing except HOH subtitles.
Conclusion
Only of note if you`re a connoisseur of bad movies. I like bad movies, but in the case of this picture I`ll make an exception. Blame for the failure of the movie tends to be put at Madonna`s door, but in this picture she plays exactly what`s required, a golddigger. She`s made much better movies and she`s made far worse.
Your Opinions and Comments
Body of Evidence only feeds the voyeur in you !!!
The one dimensional portrayal of all the characters is something common to the genre and is to be taken with a pinch of salt.
It comes across as a very poor imitation of the sexy thriller genre. Although in the end it is quite funny and makes you spend a pleasant 1 hour and 38 minutes quietly.
Madonna as always is tasty and juicy but acting is not something that she excels in ; she just widens her eyes and stands still in the courtroom scenes and says stupid things... But deep down Dino de Laurentiis (a master in creating B-Movies) had chosen Madonna, not for this!! Her job here was to… “harden” the male viewers,… by stripping, displaying her amazingly sculpted, naked body and gorgeous boobs, while riding with “healthy, pleasurable enthusiasm,” Micheal Forrest premiere and then the lucky and unprofessional lawyer Willem Dafoe... And in this was what was really Oscar-winning for best performance as a whore appeared on the screen.
So hold on to the towel and hand spray, we're going for a ride
She therefore she is a woman with little talent (the only talent she has … is that of having f***ed all the men who have favored her career).
Some of her called her: the greatest whore in the world of entertainment! And maybe you are right! Over the course of her long and glorious career she has been able to sell her hypersexualized image to make money and become what she is today: a true sex icon.
So why are we surprised by this film? After all, it is an erotic film, where the most beautiful scenes are those where Madonna appears naked, with her beautiful tits and her bushy pussy; who first mounts old Andrew Marsh and then decides to have the excited Willem-Harry Osborn ride him. And then it is useless to be scandalized and mount useless criticisms on this film; whoever saw it did it just to see naked Madonna f***ing!
Because what do you think De Laurentiis asked him when he called her about the film? “Madonna, you have to smile, make silly jokes, but mostly you have to strip, show your tits and ass and f*** with Willem Dafore! Because the public just wants that from you!” .
Ask yourself why this film had so little success in the cinema, but when it came out on videotape, was there a queue to rent it?
And 90% were men …
Because that’s what Madonna is: a luscious, buttery, sex doll created to please men …