Physical Evidence

already qualifies as one of 1989's worst movies.....Meanwhile Russell, one of our better actresses, gives the most stilted, unbelievable performance of her career.....who are instead mostly obnoxious, forced to spout dialogue that sounds like it was lifted from two dozen other very bad movies.....Any way you look at it, "Physical Evidence," rated R for violence and profanity, is a complete mess....Theresa Russell is a poor little rich girl who has spent five years in the Peace Corps.... ... Full Review

Then he meets his attorney, a public defender who is, of course, an attractive woman ( Theresa Russell ). You can often tell a movie that isn't really about anything, because it has a sensational pre-title sequence. ... Full Review

In this hopelessly muddled thriller, he is denied his routine....The case is crazy with clues, fights, new characters who fail to detain the attention, and all-important tapes containing something or other..... ... Full Review

Kent Jones, a respected film critic and programmer in New York, isn't well served by the design of Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism , his first collection of previously published articles. ... Full Article

Has-been he-man Burt Reynolds and remedial line-reader Theresa Russell join forces in the fiasco "Physical Evidence," a showcase for Russell's amateurism, the director's ineptitude and the screenwriter's clogged pen. ... Full Article

Producer Martin Ransohoff reportedly developed PHYSICAL EVIDENCE as a sequel to his 1985 film JAGGED EDGE, and although the idea was evidently abandoned, parallels between the main characters in both films still exist. ... Full Article

I shouldn't say nightmare.Most of you will probably sleep pretty soundly through the film.Little happens, after all. When poor Burt gets arrested for piano-wiring a man to death -- he's caught on tape threatening his life only two... ... Full Article