Jessica Shepard (Ashley Judd of High Crimes) is a San Francisco cop whose stock is on the rise. She recently has been promoted to homicide and is even predicted to one day be the first female Chief of Police in the city by the Bay, by none other than her family friend the police commissioner himself (Samuel L. Jackson of S.W.A.T.). She is extremely good at her job, is well liked by her co-workers and her future is bright.

But, like the rest of us, she has a dark side as well. She grew up being told that her father went on a homicidal rampage ending in the death of her mother and his suicide, and because of that she seems to have a particular chip on her shoulder when it comes to bad guys. It would also appear that she never seems to be off duty, not necessarily a bad thing for a cop I guess.

Decidedly less healthy however is the fact that she drinks too much and has a penchant for picking up men at bars and having sex with them. I’m not one to condemn anyone’s lifestyle, but you can’t exactly call that role model activity. Her secret life remained just that until one day a body was fished out of the lake right outside of where the San Francisco Giants play baseball. It starts to dawn on Sheppard that this disfigured body belonged to one of the men she picked up one night in a bar. A coincidence and not much more until another body was found slain in an identical manner not too long after the discovery of the first. So a pattern begins to develop but not reason to call San Francisco’s newest homicide detective a suspect until a third body with a past that connects him to her is discovered.

Thus posing the question to the audience, when all evidence clearly points in one direction, where else should one look? In the end of course the answer is painfully obvious.

Personally, this movie did nothing for me. For a thriller to work, you have to care on some level about the characters involved. Ashley Judd didn’t turn in a bad performance here, I just didn’t care if she did it or not and neither Sam Jackson’s nor Andy Garcia’s (Confidence) considerable talents were properly put to use in this film. For the title of this movie to be "Twisted", this movie provided very little twists or turns.