Bug
Director: William Friedkin
Year Released: 2006
Rating: 2.0
Super lonely bar hostess Ashley Judd just wants a man in her life - to replace the abusive Harry Connick, Jr. - and so gets another man in her life: the abusive Michael Shannon. I'm gathering that there's some point trying to be made about women leap-frogging from one terrible relationship to another, though the hysteria this surrounds itself with distracts from that - it's hard to stay involved with a picture that forcefully drives itself goofy, with Shannon removing his teeth with pliers or Shannon and Judd wrapping their hotel room Christo-style in tin foil. The attitude taken towards the Judd character isn't very woman-friendly, making her so pathetic that she falls for - and sticks with - someone so blatantly insane, but that kind of introspection doesn't mesh with the Grand Guignol.
