An ex-convict and self-sufficient lesbian (Gina Gershon)
secures a job renovating an apartment next door to a vicious, mid level
mobester (Joe Pantoliano) and his sultry moll (Jennifer Tilly), to whom she
shares a fiery and mutual attraction. After spending the night together, the
two women determine to lift the 2 million dollars the gangster has stashed in
his digs as part of a separate deal, leading them down a twisty and harrowing
night of violence and desperation. Before the Wachowksi's fashioned their
immensively successful Matrix trilogy, they debuted with this sleek and
seriously sexy, gut wrenching noir that became famous for its sex scene, but
succeeds at being so much more. Gershon and Tilly dazzle in the lead roles who
are not only libidinous but are also tough and competent. Pantoliano nearly
walks away with the entire show as the psychotic gangster, in a role that had
to of guaranteed his casting on "The Sopranos". With
"Bound", the Wachowski's disproved that these kind of B-pictures need
to be schlocky, excessive, and artless and proves that they can certainly rise
above themselves.
