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Captivating movie !

Best movie of this year hands down!

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This is one of my favourite films of all time! It may be because I first watched it with my best friend at 14years old and thought, at the time, it was outrageous! Very complex really, we would watch it over and over again and discuss it, deeply. Now it could be that it was this film that bonded me and my best friend (now of nearly 20 years!) but even if this is the case, I highly recommend this film as one to watch with someone who enjoys a deep and meaningful debate about almost all aspects of life and social and personal acceptance.The movie is nuts but addictive and 15 years later, no longer had vhs player, found it on dvd on eBay, ordered it, watched it and it took me back. It's waged a lot and not sure if the acting is at its best but still love it as a classic now!Must see to believe and watch again to discuss and then again to realise and then once more to get it and love it!!

Dr. Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands) was raised to be a surgeon. He's a top surgeon and a bit peculiar. His mother dies and he decides to move back into the family mansion. He is still obsessed with Helena (Sherilyn Fenn) whom he slept with once a long time ago and she knows it. She's a wild party girl going out with douche Ray O'Malley (Bill Paxton). Nick's girlfriend Anne Garrett sees the obsession and has a fight with him. He tricks Helena to his home and she runs off into the street. Her legs are crushed in a hit-and-run. He performs amputations and keeps her in his home. Dr. Alan Harrison (Kurtwood Smith) comes looking and Nick gives him the chief of surgery position. After more near-misses and constant resistance from Helena, Nick amputates her arms.Jennifer Chambers Lynch shows that her directing skill is at a TV movie level. With the ending, she shows that she doesn't have the guts to push all the way. It's all a dream and it's a cop out. Julian Sands is good at being a creep and in this one, he's a pathetic creep. Sherilyn Fenn is a beauty. The movie should look and feel much darker. Instead it feel cheesy and a bit campy.

"Dr. Nick Cavanaugh" (Julian Sands) is an extremely talented surgeon who as a child experienced emotional trauma and neglect from both his mother and father. Because of this he has difficulty relating to women and subsequently becomes obsessed with one particular person by the name of "Helena" (Sherilyn Fenn) who is extraordinarily beautiful but treats him with complete contempt. All too soon one thing leads to another and after a car accident he brings her into his home and performs surgery on her which involves amputating her legs. If that isn't bad enough he goes even further. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this is truly one of the most bizarre movies I have ever seen. Although both Julian Sands and Sherilyn Fenn clearly stood out, other good performances were rendered by Art Garfunkel (as Dr. Lawrence Augustine") and Betsy Clark ("Anne Garrett"). In any case, this is one of those movies that a person will either like or hate--and there will probably be no in-between. Personally, I liked it and rate it as slightly above average.

At it's core, the idea of Boxing Helena is interesting and pretty darn twisted. Knowing about it before hand was the only thing that kept me watching. It's a brave and unique premise for a movie. But it doesn't ever get good. Or shocking. From the get go the doctor comes off as odd and a little creepy. (And for some reason he's applying ear medicine and has cotton stuffed in his ear the whole movie. Why? I couldn't tell you.) His obsession with the (Needlessly?) bitchy Helena is questionable and for some reason there are scattered allusions to some kind of tainted past with his mother. About 45 minutes in, if he hadn't been set up to be so obvious, there could have been a real shock reveal when we find out what he's been up to. This movie tries, for some reason, to scatter erotica around too. There's a far too long slow motion scene where Helena gets undressed and jumps in a fountain at a party. You know, like you do. A scene from nowhere, where Dr. Nick has sex with a completely random and nameless woman to entertain Helena, who apparently reaches some kind of climax by watching this despite the fact that at this point in the movie, she can't possibly do that by herself. To top it all off it ends with - I'm not kidding you - "Oh, it was all a dream." DO NOT waste two hours on this flick, even if the plot sounds as intriguing to you as it did to me. It's a perfect example of how a good idea can be executed incredibly poorly.