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Before falling off into oblivion. The first forty five minutes were good. It starts off in an interesting way and it's easy to become immersed in what is going on. Unfortunately the second half is poorly written. The driving force is killed off, and what follows only leads into the least anti-climatic ending ever seen. What's worse about the ending is that it fails to resolve any of the film's events. Which almost makes the entire movie a waste of a film.

The directing is great, way better than this film deserves. The acting was good. I liked Jerry O'Connell's performance. Tara Reid was surprisingly convincing in displaying her emotions. Amanda Peet could have done better. Ron Livingston was great, and is shown in a somewhat different light.

The film has a lot of wasted potential. I'm surprised that the last half of the script wasn't completely rewritten. It is as if the writer only planned out the first half before starting to write it. If it's a dollar rental, it may be worth it. Just to be safe, I'd only recommend it if it ends up on a subscription movie channel.

In the past decade there have been a string of movies trying to define dating and relationships in the 90s. Chalk it under America's preoccupation with compartmentalizing trends and pop culture in easy to file time periods. The "turbulent 60's", the 70's "me decade", the "Reagan 80's." What do we do with the 90s? This movie thinks it has the answer. Apparently, the genders are at war and sex is something that happens after consuming copious amounts of alcohol. Lots of post-feminist feminist angst and confused males struggling to exhibit an aggressive attitude within the confines of the female-dictated political correctness. Welcome to the "cynical 90s." Now aren't you glad they're over?

There is one word for this film, WOEFUL.

This film follows the lives of 8 people (4 girls, 4 guys) and one night and its aftermath. It's a simple enough story. 4 girls meet the 4 boys, 1 boy 'rapes' 1 girl, 1 girl bonks 1 boy (who is really in love with the 'raped' girl), 1 boy is bonded by 1 girl and the other 2 are happy in their relationship. YUK.

It's a silly story, even sillier script and the characters are completely unlikeable (even in the remotest sense). It strikes me as a film someone decided to throw together after a night on a huge bong with a weekend to spare.

Don't bother watching this.

Body Shots attempts to be a hip, cutting edge commentary on sex in the 90s, but fails miserably. Screenwriter David McKenna shoves in every pathetic,tiresome pretentious stereotype he can drudge up about hip Gen-Xers living and dating in Los Angeles. While Body Shots attempts to be the Swingers Sex in the 90s, it never makes it. With a less than witty script filled with stale cliches and awkward lines, how could it?

Director Michael Cristofer couldn't decide if he wanted this to be a mocumentary, with occasional testimonials by cast members commenting on their ideas about sex directly to the camera, or a drama, touching on the subject of date rape. While these characters are supposed to be the voice of twenty-somethings in the 90s, attempting to provide us with thought-provoking material, they end up instead making cliched, shallow statements that are laughable rather than interesting. While all of us Gen-Xers are supposed to be sitting in the theater thinking, "Yeah, that is so true. That is my life.", we instead sit there trying not to laugh at the cheesy dialogue and trite situations these characters are in. The only relief Body Shots provides for the audience is Ron Livingston, who's occasional entertaining, quirky comic relief is particularly impressive when one considers the lame material he has to work with.

Since it's so far apart between seeing good acting, you really get surprised when it just kinda' sneaks up upon you and shows you what difference it makes.

Hollywood has spent years of making movies with bad dialog and acting whilst trying to cover it up with special FX, one-liners and retouched images of whatever actor/actress is the flava of the month. In `Body Shots' you get an incredibly knit-together group of Americas finest, all young actors that has yet to become too big for their own good. That is to say, they can still take on riskier projects that perhaps a bigger actor would be forced to turn down by their management because it would not `go with the audience'.

My personal thanks here to Sean Patrick Flanery and Amanda Peet, whom on earlier occasions showed me that they dared (or did not get any other offers, who knows :) commit to smaller and often much more rewarding ventures.

Tara Reid hasn't really impressed up till now with movies like American Pie and Urban Legends, but here she really gets a chance to act out. Usually, dramatic scenes are edited into smithereens, but all over `Body Shots' you get long, really intense sequences, with all of the cast-members showing their thespian caliber. I was also pleasantly surprised to be taken in by Chris O'Donnell's portrayal of the horny party-jock, since the last time I saw him was in the abysmal movie `Dungeons & Dragons' which kinda' put him on my black-list.

Ron Livingstone is just plain weird, and therefore, marvelous. (That Alka-Seltzer-bit is going to haunt me for a while :)

The editing is first class. In basically all movies, when you see a club-scene, you're not convinced at all. YOU know what it feels like to be in a steamy, crowded club, surrounded by (and being) people in various stages of intoxication. It's seldom portrayed with as much realism as it was here, much thanks to the clever editing. The layout of the story as a whole is also refreshing - not saying that messing up the timeline hasn't been done before - but the cut-scenes between the girls gang and the boys gang, the constant meta-perspective of the actors relaying their personal views of the meat market, and the flashbacks helps to make this movie what it is.

But what struck me most of all was the sex. I can't think about when I last saw a movie with such convincing sex-scenes. It was all the small things YOU do, but they never seem to be able to put into a movie. The sucking of fingers, the difference of intensity in kissing, the touching, the grabbing of genitalia. Now, I'm not saying that showing more always is the best way to portray sex. But when it's called for by the script and the context, then hell yes! And if you're going to attempt to make an honest movie about eight hormonally hyped twenty-something's, then most definitively so.

All in all, I was very impressed. The story has been done before, but not with such pathos. Movies like these make me hopeful of the future. Perhaps we're going away from only producing predictable storylines, uninspiring actors that deliver lines like they have a nail through their kneecap and dialog that you'd never hear outside of the screenwriters head.

I rented this movie out of curiosity. As a twentysomething, I was hoping it might have something new to say about dating and my generation. Let's just say, I want the two hours of my life back!

This film is supposed to be a social commentary on the ups and downs of sex and dating life. However, the writers have created a soapy drama that focuses on a group of people I have nothing in common with. Their jobs are unrealistic, as are their dwellings (how can a struggling actress live on the beach?)

The acting, on the whole is terrible. The ONLY saving grace is Ron Livingston, who plays the eccentric Trent. Amanda Peet is better in indie fare (see Southie). Sean Flannery seems to disturb me in every movie he is in (is he a dead-ringer for David Cassidy or what?) The directing is at times fast-paced, and then slow mo (Amanda Peet on the dance floor was an unintentional laugh). Where is the director going?

This should have been a direct-to-video film. If this exemplifies twentysomething culture, consider me insulted.

The tagline for Body Shots states that it defines the 90's generation. I certainly hope not. Such a statement would assume that the members of my generation are nothing more than uneducated, alcoholic rapists who only think about sex and booze. Each of the eight characters are completely one-dimensional with absolutely no redeeming qualities among the lot of them. The trailer hyped the movie as the next Graduate or Breakfast Club, hoping to draw comparisons to the far superior films. No, no...this movie has an uncanny resemblance to Showtime's worst B-grade tripe. Poorly written, poorly acted, and poorly directed, Body Shots will no doubt find itself among Ishtar and Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot as one of the worst movies of the century.

Tonight, they're going to get it - and more. Four guys and four girls set off on a wild ride through L.A.'s nightlife, dressed to kill and ready to party hard. And as the drinking, dancing and sexual tension intensifies the night gets out control and ultimately changes everyone, forever.

It's 'Melrose Place' meets Sex and the City' when Sean Patrick Flanery, jerry O'Connell, Amanda Peet, Brad Rowe, Tara Reid, Ron Livingston, Emil Proctor and Sybil Temchen star in the sexy and provocative Body Shots.

Considering the rating of body shots, it has sent home a message to me I will take to the grave. You must see this movie. I have seen plenty of teenage based films, more than any other genre lately, this film is in its unique way a pleasant change. Yet, the cast make me feel right at home because of previous teen flicks they have appeared in.

I thought the cast blended perfectly. The character I knew immediately was Sara, played by Tara Reid. I loved her in American Pie and Urban Legend. In this flick her character was one I felt for. Then there was Jerry O'Connell who played footballer and tough guy Michael. I enjoyed his role in the 2nd instalment of the scream trilogy as the boyfriend of stalker victim, Sydney Prescott. Again his role in this one was someone who I felt sorry for even though the situation was probably his fault as much as anyone's. Amanda Peet is also another character that has recently hit the big and small screen. Her role of Jane was one of compassion and sensibility. She doesn't rush into things, which in today's world is very important. Amanda also stared in the funny film the Whole Nine Yards, alongside Hollywood legend Bruce Willis, a film I loved. She also stars in the TV series called Jack and Jill. Her character's name in the series is Jacqueline 'Jack' Barrett. I look forward to seeing her in more movies.

Each character in Body Shots gives their view on the main topic that we all grapple with in life - Sex. The men from the guys point of view and the women from the girl's point of view. They talk about everything and anything, and boast about every sexual experience they have had. Here is where this gets like one of my favourite TV shows, and a lot of other people's as well - Sex and the City. Body Shots has that feel to it in my opinion and I enjoyed the way the message was delivered. They're some scenes that relate to this topic which made me laugh and also sit up and take notice.

Then the film moves onto the night on the town, which for me showed how vulnerable people can let themselves go. In fact some characters say that losing or not being control is the best way to be. But in my opinion, the film shows that doing this is leaving yourself open for to many unknowns to happen. I have no problem with people having a good time, but don't let it ruin the rest of your life.

In the end this film for me has taught one thing. What makes a relationship is love and companionship, not sex. Sex completes it by making LOVE. To finish, the summary by the cosmopolitan magazine sums this one up for me.

'A sexy and sinful look at being single in the new millennium. Body Shots hits it dead on'.

I agree. Being single isn't such a hassle or shouldn't be a problem, it's how you handle being single and the risks you take to avoid being the odd one out. If you can, do yourself a favour and put this one on the top of your 'must see' list!

CMRS gives 'Body Shots': 4 (Very Good Film)

Yes this does deliver and serves up cliches. But it also shines a light on some important issues. You may say that it shies away to give us something that we can grab onto. But it is always a matter of perspective. And it also can be something that is or can be called a burden.

Quite a few actors you may have seen since then. Some of them were not as known when they did this - therefor you may be surprised by at least one of them appearing naked in this. Especially considering how she was vocal about not appearing nude in anything ever since. Maybe this movie did the trick to her - in a negative way.

But again, this is about gender issues, about sexuality, about how we present ourselves and how much down the rabbit hole we can go. There is a need to talk to each other - a curious gem from the 90s that I reckon can be called woke nowadays ... to a degree. Because it still has things that you probably would not see today ... especially certain ambiguities.

Before she lost weight and became a typical blond hair / blue eyes actress, Tara Reid was the girl next door with a face to die for. Body Shots is still her only good acting in her young career. Having to do with sex, sex, and more sex, the movie does not fall into the same genre as an American Pie movie. Body Shots is five times a better movie and a better story. Tara Reid is the eye candy of the movie as well as its strongest act. She is the climax of the movie as well as the thread hat holds the story together and the struggle between the characters that progress throughout the movie. Tara is beautiful as well as funny and at times scary when the role requires it. A terrific story and a great supporting cast.

Yes, Body Shots is pretentious all the way, well done, but it's also entertaining, sexy and surprisingly funny. Ron Livingston is hilarious as Trent. There's also some highly steamy sex scenes. Overall, the movie never bored me, it's a perfect example of a guilty pleasure. *** (out of four)

Note: This review may reveal some plot points of the film

If you have a sadistic affinity for really bad movies then Body Shots is definitely the movie for you. This film attempts to be a raunchier Swingers for sex and the club scene and fails miserably at doing so.

As a funny take on the single life the movie might have put up a fighting chance but in repeatedly trying to be taken seriously the movie falls flat on its face. The entire package is worse than most adult movies I've seen and many instances I found my self wondering if that was what I was actually watching.

The basic premise (seriously) is as follows: Characters hang out together, go clubbing and have sex.The characters make comments in ramblingly nonsensical summations to the audience throughout the film in an attempt to dispel their ridiculously oversexed take on the meaning of life and then suddenly and without reason we become trapped in an after school special on date rape.

A cast including such up and comers as Tara Reid (American Pie) and Ron Brewington (Swingers and Office Space) could have provided redemption and though the acting was stellar throughout it was unbelievably wasted as no actor no matter how talented could have saved this story.

There is no comparison between Swingers or Go and Body Shots. The former represents film-making at it's best while the latter film-making at it's absolute worst.

Overall Rating: F (a generous offer)

Characatured characters, cliched scenarios and crass dialogue, ladened with exposition.

If the writer/director/producers had just got on with telling the story, they would not have to have such lame lines as one girl telling the other that her boobs were new. Having had the operation herself, I'm sure the girl knew it, so why tell her? LAME EXPOSITION. There's tons of it.

Then you have the four representative guys, the suiet decent guy, the normal guy, the jock and the nerd.

These guys never exist as a group in real life, as anyone who had more than 2 brain cells would be bored to death with the jock in 8.5 seconds. Any guy, who thinks he's a cool dude, about to score with some hot chic, is NO WAY, going to take a nerd along - I REPEAT - NO WAY! You are just not going to risk putting a girl off by hanging with geeks!

The girls are vapid, post modern, pre-pubescent (intellectually that is) teasers. Who in the current trend, have to talk dirty.

This type of frank discussion works well for older women, Mrs Robinson, "The Graduate", Carrie Bradshaw et al - "Sex and the City", but in girl who are barely out of school, it's crass. The have no credibility and have about as much chance of blowing a guy mind, as an electric toothbrush. One night stand, ok sex that's it. Certainly not a night to remember.

New Line Cinema usually create, imaginative, off beat good films, but this is a bust. THIS IS CERTAINLY NO "GO"!

this movie tries too hard to be thought provoking and edgy. i thought it sucked. it's like they put issues in this movie, just so they could say that they covered them. the acting is terrible, and they seem to show tons of unnecessary and tasteless nudity to make up for it. the idea could've worked, except the movie wasn't thought out completely and they tried to pack too much into one movie.

This is a well done movie, as in it's premise, with many actors addressing us earlier on, about their own views and attitudes towards sex, cause remember it's now 2000. What you don't count later on, is, if not watching the start, is the rapid turn the film takes. Yes our eight, twenty somethings, whatever, party like it's 1999, boozing, dancing, drug taking, and fighting. It's so 200O, this movie, which is colorfully, if deliciously entertaining and involving. Over the course of the night, things really get out of hand for two players, if instigated by a fracas with a bouncer, earlier. What ensues for O'Connell and Reid is sex gone wrong. O'Connell is charged with the rape of Reid, who back at his palatial spread, started coming onto him, and he returned his affections forcefully, against her will. But did he really rape as we have two sides to each story, as it appears Reid, her character, a wannabe actress here, has had a really bad history with booze. So really the film becomes in a lesser extent, a dramatic thriller. Who's bullshitting who. The film cleverly shows the different POV from our two, where Reid could of even made it up, where some flashbacks weren't authentic, or a little misrepresented, that's the fun in the story here. Like in Jerry Macquire, O'Connell matter of fact here, plays another big shot athlete, where only his best friend, Rick (Sean Patrick Flannery) stands by him, as really the other guys really don't know him. The dorky Trent (Ron Livingston) cracked me up, and stole the film. Besides the part where he tries to sneak back into the club, cause of his dress sense, wait to you see his hilarious flashback, later, before returning his crib, which he shares with the guy, that completes our foursome. Oh I didn't mention another short flashback, involving him with a much older woman, which you have to see. All performances are good here, and well as a sexy female cast, we have a couple of sexy bits, but this pic, will surprisingly involve you. Quite a potent film, if only for a unsatisfying or displeasing ending/result, that I highly recommend, especially to fans of some it's actors. Check out a scene of originality, where the druinken O'Connell, after his crime temporarily takes over a hamburger shop. Obviously, he really had the munchies.

After watching this insipid piece of self-serving vacuous tripe, I got down on my knees and thanked God that when I was a twenty-something I lived in New York City and not LA. This film doesn't have a single redeeming quality. The title is moronic since it has nothing to do with anything in the movie. The acting is sophomoric (which I should have expected with Tara Reid as the lead). The pretentious direct-to-the-camera commentary by the principals comes off as laughable verbal diarrhea. Truman Capote once said that from the time the wheels of your jet touch down in LA your IQ goes down in a geometrically progressive fashion for each day you remain there. That the makers of this film took themselves seriously bears out his statement.

I unfortunately went to see this movie on an invitation from a friend, and we both left half way through it. This movie is as shallow as the plot without question. The so-called music from this movie gave me a headache that still rages 3 hours after leaving the theatre. I don't really think I can say much more than that, you must have the message already.

Purely an amateur production.

This film was full of wild and sexy scenes and not worth viewing, unless you like Emily Procter(Whitney Bryant),"CSI Miami TV Series,'02, who charms and delights Sean Patrick Flanery (Rich Hamilton),"Kiss the Bride",'02 who played his role just as you would expect him to, charming all the gals and even scoring!! Emily Procter showed her great FORM and good acting skills and she can presently be seen in the CSI Miami TV Series, with David Caruso, as a gun expert with her nose down the barrel. I am quite sure we will see Emily advance to better acting roles and a very bright future on the big SCREEN! This film tried to tell a story, but it just did not quite make the grade!!!