this is one very good movie.it's got suspense,a twisting plot,great intensity,and a good story.it may not be wholly original,but it think it works,thanks to its three main actors,Alec Baldwin(The Good Shepherd)Nicole Kidman(The Interpreter)and Bill Pullman.But Kidman really surprised me with the intensity she brought to her role.i'm generally not a fan,but she is effective in this movie.the supporting performances are also good.i also like the fact that the movie isn't completely predictable,like happens in so many movies.the movie is also very well paced.there are no lagging spots to slow things down to the point of boredom.anyway,i really enjoyed it. 8/10

In October, 1993, when my grandfather took me to see "Cool Runnings", my parents and grandmother went to see "Malice". When I saw "Malice" many years later, I was quite surprised at what they had seen while I had watched something as silly as "Cool Runnings" (which I will say, was a pretty funny movie). It portrays a three-way relationship between a professor (Bill Pullman),his wife (Nicole Kidman),and her gynecologist (Alec Baldwin). Following a botched medical procedure, we find out that none of these individuals is really what they seem. I don't know how much I can tell you without giving away the whole movie, but I can tell you this. Probably the most famous scene is Alec Baldwin's God speech, but equally effective is Anne Bancroft's few minutes on screen. Her speech there helps us understand just how much we don't know about various characters.

Anyway, it's one of those movies that sets you up and holds you...and then catches you when you least expect it. You may never think the same way about anything after watching this movie. Also starring Bebe Neuwirth, Josef Sommer, Tobin Bell and a very young Gwyneth Paltrow.

Andy Safian (Bill Pullman) is the Associate Dean at a local college. A serial rapist attacks a student and the new hot-shot brash doctor Jed Hill (Alec Baldwin) saves her life. Andy realizes that Jed is a popular former high school classmate. Andy's wife Tracy (Nicole Kidman) is a children school teacher and his former student. Andy rents out their third floor to Jed but he's a bad tenant. Andy finds the dead body of student Paula Bell (Gwyneth Paltrow) and detective Dana Harris (Bebe Neuwirth) sees him as a suspect despite being his friend. Tracy suffers a rupture of an ovarian cyst. A drunk Jed operates and mistakenly takes out both ovaries as well as causing a miscarriage. Tracy blames Andy for allowing it to happen as she sues Jed.

The movie is overloaded with red herring, blind twist and subplots where a serial killer actually dead ends to nothing but a random guy. At some point, I wonder what this movie is really about. It has so much plot that it sinks under its own weight. It may hurt Aaron Sorkin physically but he needed to simplify the story. Alec Baldwin is chewing up the dialog and is a full-on arrogant douche. In a simple story about Jed, that would be a powerful scene. However it becomes just another big writing scene in a movie full of wild writing.