Wild Things, written by Stephen Peters

Wild Things, written by Stephen Peters

If for nothing else, Wild Things is worth watching because the incredible Bill Murray has a role in it.

                Alas, this titan of cinema only has a small part.

Therefore, the film is not outstanding, for the majority of the narrative, without Bill Murray, is not radiant.

                Watchable?

Yes…

But not thrilling.

This is in spite of the fact that the plot has quite a few unexpected twists and one would say one too many.

Maybe even two.

Or three?

Matt Dillon is very good as Sam Lombardo, a teacher who seems to be very nice, friendly and close to students.

Not as close though as Kelly Van Ryan would like, for she approaches the educator to have sex with him.

When he refuses this open, sexy invitation, the girl turns against him and claims she has been raped.

The situation is dramatic once another girl, maybe the real hero of this story, Suzie Toller has the same statement.

Let us make one thing clear:

This will not reveal even half of what happens, there is no need for a spoiler alert, with so much going on in this picture.

Indeed, it needs repeating:

Too much is going on

When the trial is in process, the brilliant Bill Murray brings amusement, entertainment, pleasure to the fore:

He is Ken Bowden, the lawyer hired by Sam Lombardo to defend him and he exposes flaws in the character of Suzie Toller, the fact that she used to be a friend of the defendant who had helped her so much.

Apparently, the girl has a breakdown and she says, under pressure, that this was not her idea and then she tells the extraordinary truth…

Well, an apparent truth, for this will be revealed, then denied, complicated again throughout the entire film.

Suzie Toller says that it was Kelly van Ryan’s plan, because she loves her teacher and when he rejected her, the girl wanted revenge.

The latter comes to the stage and she starts screaming and then throws a glass object at her nemesis…”the bitch”.

Following this first out of many turns of events, Bill Murray aka Ken Bowden wants money from the very rich mother of Kelly.

After all, the innocent teacher has been dragged through prison and court, suffered <<intolerable cruelty>>.

The whole charade is settled for a sum that was close to eight point five million dollars for the victim.

Consequently, we have one of the few disturbing surprises in this Game of Villains, when Kelly comes at the house of the naïve Sam.

They embrace, to the astonishment of the audience and then there is more…oh, so much more!

Suzie enters the room asking about how they will divide $ 8.5 million three ways, for this is a threesome…sexually and as partners in crime.

Sam wanted the money; the same is true for Suzie and the rich Kelly could not get access to her riches until she was eighteen, or maybe twenty-one.

However, it is much more complex, for we have an honest (?) investigator on their tail, played by the famous Kevin Bacon.

All this takes place in the first twenty minutes and the rest starts becoming annoying when too many twists become tiresome and ultimately ineffective, the viewer becoming incredulous whatever happens…is this a good guy? Maybe for the next five minutes…