The Naked Man

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2006 Filmcritic.com

Nothing makes you want to see a movie as much as a title like The Naked Man, does it? Feels like a vanity project: Michael Rapaport is Edward Blis, a chiropracter becomes a wrestler (clad in a leotard painted with the human anatomy, he's known as "the naked man") and later a sort of vigilante super-hero. Rapaport isn't terribly memorable, nor is the oddball script (co-written by Ethan Coen), but give it a whirl if only for Rachael Leigh Cook's leather-clad, hair-teased psycho-vixen, with love/hate tattooed across her breasts.

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Rating

2.5 out of 5 Stars

Cast and Crew

  • Director: J. Todd Anderson
  • Producer: Ben Barenholtz
  • Screenwriter: J. Todd Anderson, Ethan Coen
  • Stars: Michael Rapaport, Michael Jeter, John Carroll Lynch, Arija Bareikis, Rachael Leigh Cook, Martin Ferrero
  • MPAA Rating: R