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Apart from the Texas-sized loopholes in the script, this film is one of the corniest horror films I have ever watched. Stephen King is credited as one of the writers, and this is surprising to see as it is unclear if he has actually contributed to the script or this film was inspired from King's initial novel. The acting is quite mediocre, but the special effects are of record tackiness, with human puppets of the amazing quality of voodoo dolls. The gore factor is satisfying, even unexpectedly high. The reference to environmental issues as a contemporary premise to any evil we see on screen is flimsy and ephemeral. Overall, spare a few bucks to rent this on a Saturday night in with your friends and pizza.

This can be considered as another fairy tale but with lots of twists: No colors, or color busted scenes, it's all in black and white. The characters save each other. They are continually on the road, traveling from one city in Europe to another and from one bridge to another.

Filmed entirely in black/white, the eye is not focused on the panoramas but on the characters themselves. Especially the knife-throwing scenes are quite craftily edited. The acting is quite well, and Vanessa Paradis is a surprise, she can actually act apart from singing. The soundtrack is very gripping.

To sum up: Girl on the Bridge is a road movie about love and luck which starts on a bridge in Paris and ends on another bridge in Istanbul.

This is the last of the Flesh-Trash-Heat trilogy, and my favorite among the three, with its plenty one-liners, stunning acting, lots of flesh showing (tamer than the other two though) and quite sad background.

This is quite different from its prequels in acting, script and camera use. Heat actually has a plot, the actors including Joe Dallessandro are very good and the camera moves, instead of being stable.

Loneliness lurks everywhere, in the forgotten old star's delusion of still having loads of fans, in the ex-child star's dreams of settling down honorably, and all the other inmates of the run-down motel.