Paranoid |  | Director: John Duigan
Actors: Jessica Alba, Iain Glen, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ewen Bremner, Mischa Barton
Studio: Ventura Distribution
Category: DVD
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 72832
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 634991111829
EAN: 0634991111829
ASIN: B00005PJ78
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: September 25, 2001
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 14
 Decent Film, Could Have Been Better Though November 23, 2009
Siklootd (Santa Fe, NM)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Going into this film, I had high expectations. The information on the box make the movie seem a lot more "intense" than it turns out to be. The film is about a supermodel (Jessica Alba) who is cheating on her boyfriend. She goes with her new love interest to his home which happens to be located hundred of miles away from her place of residence, and is also rather isolated from others. She is drugged and held hostage for several days by the now cruel and abusive man she thought she loved. This sounds interesting doesn't it? However the film contains too many gaps of almost nothing being done on screen in between the actual scenes that contain anything that could be considered as action. There are scenes that fill you with suspense, however these scenes rarely occur and are too far apart from each other. This often results in unnecessary dialogue that has nothing to do with the story in anyway, instead it simply distract from the suspense that could have been occurring in its place. The film does pick up, and the ending is rather good. Overall it is a decent film, however don't expect too much out of it.
Jessica Alba is Paranoid May 22, 2009
B. Ayers
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are buying this for Jessica Alba nudity, don't. The story line is good and the acting is above average. However, this movie is nothing special.
 HUGE potential wasted... September 6, 2008
H. Jonathan Lawson (St. Louis, MO USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie could actually have been really good if someone had bothered to edit it. The acting is great, especially by Iain Glen, who plays the villain with a sort of perverse glee. Jeanne Tripplehorn is awesome as a pathetic accomplice. It was cool to see Ewen Bremner playing a voyeuristic dweeb, and Jessica Alba, gorgeous as ever, gives one of her better performances. Portions of the script were quite brilliant and funny. The photography was often beautiful and creepy. But the scenes go on interminably, and there is a lot of dead space in the dialogue, like they just let the camera run. There's not enough actual action to sustain the viewer's attention, and sadly, not enough eroticism, either. It's unbelievable that a movie featuring Jessica Alba handcuffed to a bed for two days could be so boring and unsexy. I actually contemplated suicide while watching this movie. If they shaved off a half hour and added some actual sex and violence, it would have been awesome.
Worthless. June 7, 2006
Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Paranoid (John Duigan, 2000)
There are some movies that make me wonder, after I have suffered through them, what on Earth anyone involved in making them was thinking. Paranoid may be the best example of this I have ever come across. Jessica Alba was fresh off the success of Idle Hands. Iain Glen was in something of a slump, but did have The Wyvern Mystery coming out that year. Jeanne Tripplehorn had just done the wonderful Very Bad Things, and was actually at the high point of her career (despite the dire predictions made by everyone, myself included, that Waterworld would sink the careers of everyone involved). Ewen Bremner had just become the darling of critics everywhere as the title character in Julien Donkey-Boy and was about to achieve major commercial success with Snatch. And all one needs to say about Mischa Barton is The Sixth Sense. Now, how on earth did John Duigan manage to get all these people to appear in this utter dog of a film?
I grant you, when Duigan's on his game, as with Wide Sargasso Sea or Lawn Dogs, he's capable of turning out a relatively good film, sometimes bordering on greatness. But when he misses, he shoots so wide of the mark that one often wonders if it's the same director-- and Paranoid is the biggest miss of Duigan's career. Aside from a couple of what one can assume (based on interviews Alba has given about later films) are body-double glimpses of a half-naked Alba (and a number of other model-type girls) at the beginning of the flick, and a bunch of model-shots of Alba in some pretty nifty lingerie ads, only the most hardcore Jessica Alba fan is going to get anything at all out of this tired, predictable, not-even-a-smidge-as-kinky-as-it-thinks-it-is "thriller." It's the only movie I can think of that I could possibly describe as being as erotic as Eyes Wide Shut, as mysterious as Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?, and as dangerous as Path of Destruction (or fill in any other Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie here). "Bad" does not even begin to sum it up. I cannot recommend highly enough that you avoid this movie at all costs. *
I'm a real person, with feelings... and stuff... January 21, 2006
Marina J. Neary (Stamford, CT United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I admit, I'm a bit of a sucker for cheesy erotic thrillers. Well, this one is neither thrilling, nor particularly erotic. But it's definitely cheesy. I realize that Jessica Alba's character is not supposed to be multi-dimensional, but if she claims to be "a real person with feelings" she should do more than pout and roll her eyes.
The "bad guy" looks like a British clone of Jack Nicholson. The features, the facial expression, the tone - it all echoes of "The Shining". Even the notion of the abandoned hotel is used.
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