Product Description

Assistant D.A. David Corelli (David Caruso) is trapped between friendship and the law when the brutal murder of an important San Francisco millionaire points toward his former lover and college friend, Trina Gavin (Linda Fiorentino), a beautiful woman with a mysterious alter ego. As details of the murder victim's sexual escapades emerge, Corelli uncovers evidence that the victim was blackmailing a powerful politician with incriminating photographs. But as the crucial witnesses are systematically murdered and attempts on Corelli's life are made, the case assumes a paranoid veneer in which nothing is certain and no one can be trusted. Set against a backdrop of the immaculate mansions of the San Francisco wealthy with a decorative fetish for the ancient Far East and contrasted with a classic Friedkin chase scene through the city's Chinatown, JADE is a lush, dark, and suspenseful sexual thriller from the writer of BASIC INSTINCT that will keep the audience guessing until the very last scene.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30566 in DVD
• Brand: Lions Gate
• Released on: 2010-04-06
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Color, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 95 minutes

Amazon.com
Neither director William Friedkin nor star David Caruso could redeem this vulgar, nasty script by Joe Eszterhas. Caruso is a politically ambitious assistant D.A. investigating the gruesome murder of a San Francisco bigwig. Too many clues point in the direction of his former girlfriend (Linda Fiorentino), a shrink who has a secret sideline as call girl to the rich and kinky. For good measure, she's now married to Caruso's best friend, Chazz Palminteri. Friedkin has done much better work in other places; even he can't perform much magic here, though he tries, with a solid car chase (that suffers in comparison to those he staged in French Connection and To Live and Die in L.A.). --Marshall Fine

From The New Yorker
Writer Joe Eszterhas's follow-up to his "Showgirls" fiasco is every bit as hopeless, and this time he takes some good actors down with him. David Caruso plays a prosecutor investigating a gruesome murder, which may have been committed by an old flame (Linda Fiorentino) who has since married a tough defense attorney (Chazz Palminteri). The story is ridiculous: the victim, a millionaire, collected pubic hair from his conquests, and one such specimen-from a woman named Jade-intrigues the detective, who searches for her and learns that her sexual specialty was ... Eszterhas should get a grip. So should the director, William Friedkin, who provides not one but two car chases through San Francisco (now, there's a novelty) in the hope of pumping in some energy. Nothing that he or the actors try builds suspense or makes any sense. Eszterhas may be fixated on money, power, and sex, but his scripts are cheap, humorless, and limp. -Bruce Diones
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