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Bound is a crime thriller writ­ten and directed by the Wachowski broth­ers, the same guys who wrote and directed The Matrix. This movie is no Matrix but it is a great movie nonethe­less. It’s a noir kind of film and every­one in it is dirty. I say that to express that there are no inno­cents here. Jen­nifer Tilly and Gina Ger­shon pro­vide mul­ti­ple scenes of girl on girl action and at first I thought that was all the movie was going to be. I might have been sat­is­fied with that too but then the movie turned into this mob movie com­plete with money laun­der­ing, hit­men, blood, and Joe Pan­to­liano shout­ing and wav­ing a gun. I had no idea how it was going to end.

The sex between Jen­nifer Tilly and Gina Gershon’s char­ac­ters was intense but not out­ra­geous. Both women played their part well and their sex­u­al­ity seemed to ooze from the screen and believe it or not, with­out the sex, the rest of the movie wouldn’t have worked. Once it started being all about the money, the film leapt into sus­pense mode and never let up until the movie was all but over. It’s easy to know who to root for but since every­one in this movie is a bad guy of some sort, you just don’t know for sure until it’s over. Joe Pan­to­liano was at his mani­a­cal best in this film, almost as if the role was made  for him. I enjoyed this movie from begin­ning to end and give it an enthu­si­as­tic 4.5 out of 5 marks.