Kiss the Girls
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
Heavy, steady, extreme thriller / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.
Our read · Kiss the Girls (1997) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive thriller · crime · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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