This is the most original and unpredictable thriller I have ever seen. Skillfully balancing candor and skimpy understatements, smart, engaging, terrific writing and superbly acted!
You can't believe anyone here! And how human feelings change while watching it - that's true, the writers twist us with their understatements and masses of plot lines as they want! You don't have time to sympathize with one character before you want to spit at him. And then the characters appear again and again - and everyone is up to his ears in mud, and it begins to seem that almost the whole world spins in this damn wheel, which is called 'Wildness'! An astounding knowledge of the human psyche and emotions.
However, McNaughton has never made a single simple film. All of his films, without exception, intrigue, cause a variety of feelings, subjugate the man.
The first time I was simply shocked by this movie, but later, upon revision, despite its familiar plot and familiar denouement, it has not lost its charm and mystique. Not only Neve Campbell and sexy Denise Richards, but also Kevin Bacon and Matt Dillon played their best parts to date. Bill Murray is very good as a lawyer.
But the script is its strongest point, skillfully blowing up the atmosphere, combining the comic with the tragic, the original with the banal, the detective with the thriller, making the audience watch the actions of the characters and searching in vain for the main bastard, until the very end, making this movie maybe the loudest phenomenon in the cinema of 98.