Kept (2001) User Reviews

Kept is a real keeper

[dkonidis · 7/10 · 13 August 2003]

This film combines a decent plot with a great performance from the enticing Michelle Von Flotow. She plays the seductive Barbara and together with her husband runs an architecture firm. There's just something about the way Barbara smokes a cigarette and orders a man on his knees. Ice-T also appears as his usual self. So if you're looking for an erotic thriller/mystery to help you sit back and relax this does the job. Although it didn't win any awards this movie is much better than some others of it's kind that are out there because of it's interesting story. The DVD also includes a nice array of special features just in case you have some more time to kill.

Another mundane, LA erotic thriller featuring a weak murder mystery between the simulated sex scenes.

[TheVid · 30 June 2003]

Just another in the cycle of low-cost, late-night cable thrillers designed to titillate suburban subscribers with heavy breathing and soap opera story lines. This one features some quirky add-on scenes featuring Ice-T as an investigating cop. The sexual activity is rather bland for this kind of thing, since there's not much variety in the sexual episodes and the male lead is rather fey. Not one of the better choices in this category.

OK if you have nothing else to do SPOILER ALERT

[Alan-40 · 14 August 2001]

About 3 parts softcore and 2 parts mystery-thriller. Make that one part; I figured out whodunit in the first ten minutes. You're not supposed to notice with all the nooky going on.

One extra star because the "woman under suspicion" actually CALLS THE POLICE when she finds a dead body she knows she could be blamed for. They never (usually) do that in these kinds of movies -- they always try to cover it up and get in deeper because of it.

Take a half star back because of the tiresome "cop partner banter" that we get too much of. Nobody talks like that.