Review of Boxing Helena (1993) by Paul F — 30 Jul 2011

I like films about psychos; psycho babysitters, psycho nannies, psycho flatemates, psycho cops, the list is endless; 90s films were full of them. So here we have one with a psycho surgeon, with far more money than he probably deserves, the backbone of a soft toy (and we're not talking Superted here), horrible hair and a huge crush on the world's biggest, cock-teasing bitch. We also have the Number One, very worst, cop-out ending that's possible in a film. Still, despite the latter it's all very watchable; and I guess if you're going to have a psychotic man-crush on someone you could do a lot worse than have it over Sherilyn Fenn, who does look rather lovely. It's also got Kurtwood Smith in it, playing the part of a doctor. Sorry, but he's always going to be Clarence Boddicker to me, the baddie from "Robocop". I was just waiting for him to pull out some massive gun and blow everyone away.

No cats and no decapitations. Top badass moment: Given that the main male character is probably in the Top 10 Wusses of All Time, I'm afraid I'm going to have to go with Helena's bitchy behaviour towards the good doctor at the party, where she paddles in the fountain (in that way only sexy women in movies can) and then goes off with his friend, right in front of him. Crushing someone's ego entirely is baddass, (even though it's really, really mean too). 6 out of 10.