Excellent, smart action film.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Aren't you just sick of all those cooking shows on TV? I'm not, because I never watch 'em. "Compulsion" parodies these gourmet splurges. If you think overdone parody could be fun, then you might enjoy this movie - if you don't, then maybe you won't. Heather Graham can handle the heat in the kitchen. She works this role hard, a tour de force. In fact, rather too much of the movie depends on her performance. One of the most loving things you can do is feed someone. You're holding the spoon, and you're actually putting the food into the mouth of a baby, or a helpless old person, or someone severely disabled. But people who have tried to get an anorexic to eat know that this can be a heartbreaking exercise. And Amy's reclusive and depressed neighbour (whose careers are slipping away) is anorexic. So the "feeding" begins to look rather sinister. But is Amy living in a dream world? Is this TV cooking show she's planning ever going to happen? And her partner seems to be losing interest in her brilliant culinary achievements. Perhaps he's losing interest in her. He'll need to be taught a lesson. She is heterosexual, right? Viewers will need to have patience. There are flashbacks, so pay attention. You have to accept the conventions of the genre. I liked it.

Amy and Saffron live near one another. If the blinds are open, they can see into each other's apartments. As the picture starts, Detective Reynolds is looking into Saffron's disappearance.Through flashbacks, Reynolds learns that Amy and Saffron knew each other somewhat well. Amy is an aspiring TV cook, while Saffron is an actress and a commentator for women's magazines. The rise and fall of the romance between Amy and Fred is detailed. After that fails, Amy tries to get closer to Saffron.As Amy's obsession with getting a cooking show continues to fail, Saffron's acting career keeps gliding downward. After her breakup with Fred is well on its way, Amy continues to try to get closer to Saffron, who remains standoffish at first.Amy insists on Saffron's trying her dishes, but Saffron is a bulimic who smokes. More than once she barfs up what Amy has more or less force-fed her. Amy loves Saffron's old movies, as does Amy's mother. Saffron slowly warms to Amy. We have a flash back to Saffron being casting-couch raped as a child star when the director who did it wants her to audition for a new role. So, that opportunity was another dead end.Amy and Saffron get to know each other after that; how well does that turn out? ------Scores-------Cinematography: 10/10 Simply gorgeous.Sound: 10/10Acting: 8/10 The two leads were fine, as were Joe Montegna and Kevin Dillon.Screenplay: 5/10 The content misses the mark in a lot of ways. Amy's cooking obsession is over-abundantly clear, and loses some focus because of that. Saffron's trying to hold onto her place as a young star is rather sad. She does not make the adjustment to mature roles, which is unfortunate since studios show interest in her for middle-aged roles. Intellectually, anyway, it's clear what either of them should do, but they don't do it. This backdrop dulled my interest in the lesbian affair and in the missing persons investigation. The screenplay was by far the worst part of the film. There is too much repetition, and it is too slow going forward.

Compulsion? Nope.Dull, dreary, overacted, pointless drivel.Stars Heather Graham and her cleavage. Also stars Carrie-Anne Moss and her misery.Co-stars Kevin Dillon doing hammy Kevin Dillon stuff and Joe Mantegna looking uncomfortable.Some other people are in it.Red corridor, lots of cooking. Supposed to be sexy, thrilling, dramatic and macabre. Fails on all counts.A little over halfway through its 88 minute running time I realised that, actually, I DO have the will to live, and left.It promised Compulsion, I'd have accepted revulsion. Settled for expulsion! You have been warned.For more reviews from The Squiss, subscribe to my blog and like the Facebook page.

First of all, let me just start out by saying that this movie is slow, unbelievably slow. And the 88 minutes that the movie ran for seemed much, much longer.The story told in "Compulsion" had its moments, but it was overall weighed down by things taking too long. There were so many scenes that just dragged on for way too long, where the movie would have benefited from a trim and a notch up in pace."Compulsion" is about Amy (played by Heather Graham) who is obsessed about gourmet cooking and dreaming about getting her own cooking show on TV. All she cares about is her cooking and her food, desperately seeking approval in her cooking from her boyfriend/husband (?) Fred (played by Kevin Dillon). However, her compulsive obsession drives him away, and instead she starts to cook for her reclusive neighbor Saffron (played by Carrie-Anne Moss).It should be said that the people in the movie were doing good jobs in acting, however, the characters were really odd. And I personally didn't really find much enjoyment in these characters, because they were all a bit too eccentric and out there. But thumbs up to the actors and actresses, because they did good jobs.This slow paced thriller might not be suitable for just anyone, and I was tempted to get up and find something else to watch a couple of times throughout the 88 (long) minutes. But I stuck with it to the end, hoping that there might just be a change for the better just around the corner. But that was not to be...I am rating "Compulsion" a mere 3 out of 10 stars, simply because the actors and actresses held the movie afloat, the rest of the movie - especially the storyline itself - was just downright boring and tedious.