Bad Timing

Bad Timing

I don’t agree with the title of the movie. The most appropriate title for this movie would have been ‘Bed Timing’ as on an average every fifteen minutes the movie shows a steamy bed scene. Next suitable title could have been ‘Bad Movie’ as this really is a bad (I mean it, nasty bad) movie. I won’t categorize this movie as either drama or mystery; as a matter of fact the most suitable category for this movie is soft porn.

Performances wise also we don’t have a very bright report at hands. Theresa Russell is sexy, convincing, revealing and OKAY but Art Garfunkel had a baaaaaaad timing. Subplots and side stories are disastrous and out of line with the main movie. The destructive love affair between Doctor Linden and Melina finally ends up in a waste of over two hours. Melina insists on freedom and Alex is jealously possessive and becomes obsessive and irrational. Director has tried to present rape as a murder but has finally achieved rape of the movie. The jumbled mixture of mystery and sex is awful. Bad timing is not a sensual obsession, it’s a mental torture. Director switches back and forth in the chronology of the story and I found the links between present story and flashback sequences intelligent and well matched. Vienna also seemed like a beautiful place. Overall look and feel of the movie was also not that bad, but as a whole the movie didn’t do much good.

My Rating: 3/10
Entertainment Value:40%