A movie book-ended by two suicide attempts, Color by Night is a cat-and-mouse murder mystery filled with DePalma-esque deaths, gender bending plot twists and a neatly-tied ending. And the “Best Sex Scenes” in film history, according to Maxim magazine. We obviously disagree. The memorably manic film follows sensitive psychotherapist Bill Capa (Bruce Willis) as he leaves New York haunted by the suicide of one of his patients. He goes to Los Angeles to stay with a friend, but is soon wrapped up in a murder investigation as those are him are picked off one by one. If all the mayhem and death threats weren’t enough to keep him on his toes, a young woman, Rose (Jane March), inexplicably drifts into his life by ramming into his car. Sex follows — full-frontal Bruce Willis and March, no less — but it feels deliberately provocative. It tries too hard, and in doing so remains flat, cold and lifeless on the screen.
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