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SEX AND DEATH 101 Send This Review to a Friend
If this is sex, I’ll take death. “Sex and Death 101,” written and directed by Daniel Waters, looms as a candidate for one of the worst films of 2008. One of its stars, Winona Ryder plays a character called Death Nell who goes around seducing men and putting them into a coma. The film can put one into a coma on its own. Unconsciousness would be a blessing.
The plot concerns Simon Baker as Roderick, who, about to get married, receives a mysterious e-mail listing everyone with whom he has had sex and all those with whom he will have sex during his life. He needs to run down the future list of 72 projected sex partners and take care of business. The last person on the list presumably is the one he’ll settle down with, not the one he is slated to marry and who precedes the 72.
If you think this makes for an erotic film, it doesn’t. Far from it.The story is too stupid and the liaisons are so boring that sitting through it all becomes a chore. Oh, sure, there are a few amusing moments here and there—but very few. One might think Roderick is living through many a man’s fantasy existence, but the film undercuts him with its ho-hum straining to amount to something more than a concept. An Anchor Bay Entertainment in association with Avenue Pictures and Sandbar Pictures release.
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