Rachel Weisz Movie:

Editorial Review:
Not so much a feminist twist on the bloody British gangster thriller as a vision of innocents in thugland, Beautiful Creatures offers a pair of birds at the center of this traditionally bloke-driven genre. Think of it as Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels by way of Bound. Susan Lynch and Rachel Weisz are Dorothy and Petula, gangster girlfriends desperate to escape the Scottish underworld of scumbags, violent gang bosses, and corrupt cops.

The familiar details are all here--a dead body that won't go away, an uneasy balance between sadistic violence and black humor, and a tightening web of conspiracies and revenge plots that converge in a messy climax. But director Bill Eagles and writer Simon Donald temper the runaway plotting and cutthroat conniving of alpha males with moments of female bonding and giggly girl talk. Unfortunately they never quite overcome the brutal misogyny inherent in the genre. Still, there's a real joy in seeing Petula's self confidence blossoming under Dorothy's encouragement and trust, and you can't help but want the giddy girlfriends to triumph over the big, bad underworld. --Sean Axmaker

Beautiful Creatures [Region 2] Reviews:
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES DVD
2009-04-28 - GREAT MOVIE. GIRLS AND THEIR PINK GERMAN SHEPHERD TAKE ON THE BAD GUYS. LONG A FAVORITE OF MINE I WAS HAPPY TO FIND IT AVAILABLE AND AT A LOW PRICE. DVD WAS NEW IN PACKAGE AS DESCRIBED. SHIPPING WAS FAST. AN EXCELLENT TRANSACTION.

Humorous, startling and entertaining film
2007-05-31 - Two beautiful women meet by chance when one is being throttled by her boyfriend in an alley. The other also suffering an abusive relationship picks up a pipe to aid the woman and accidentally kills the man. The women concoct a kidnapping to cover up the murder but nothing goes as planned in this dark Comedy of Errors meets Thelma and Louise; except with a happier ending... at least for the women. It is a humorous, startling and entertaining film with a lot of evil men who like to threaten, control and abuse women. The women are meek and compliant in the beginning but really come into their own by the end.

A Great Dark Comedy And Ms. Weisz Is So HOT!!!
2005-09-24 - This movie is about two women who are caught in bad relationships until certain events occure to free them of their domestic shackles. These two ladies might be abused by their men but are in no way "Profesional Victims' as so many women in Hollywood movies are portrayed.Ms. Weisz is beautiful as always and has a very sexy English accent and a great flair for comedy which is why I give this movie 5 stars.

Sans Brad Pitt--still the better film
2005-04-25 - Two young women, one exceptionally beautiful, are involved with highly abusive men. They seem unable to extract themselves from these indiviual violent relationships until events pull them apart. In spite of the violence, this is actually a darkly humorous movie, laugh out loud, and well worth seeing. There are no decent men in this picture, all are twisted or corrupt and violent. That is too bad. A sense of balance here would have been better.The acting is very good and the background of Glasgow is a pleasant change. There is a Thelma and Louise quality to it without the attributes of Brad Pitt. That said, this is the better film.

The movie has style
2003-10-22 - Sometimes the plot is not important and sometimes neither is acting. I actually found the acting in this movie quite mediocre. Nonetheless, all this is not important. The movie has style and you can see this from the start. It is quite rare and I value this very much.