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| Kinsey [2004] | ![Kinsey [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21AAYD17AZL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Bill Condon
Actors: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Peter Sarsgaard
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Format: Anamorphic, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 114 minutes
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Release Date: July 11, 2005
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Amazon.co.uk Review
One of the best films of 2004, iKinsey/i pays tribute to the flawed but honorable man who revolutionized our understanding of human sexuality. As played by Liam Neeson in writer-director Bill Condon's excellent film biography, Indiana University researcher Alfred Kinsey was so consumed by statistical measurements of human sexual activity that he almost completely overlooked the substantial role of emotions and their effect on human behavior. This made him an ideal researcher and science celebrity who revealed that sexual behaviours previously considered deviant and even harmful (homosexuality, oral sex, etc.) are in fact common and essentially normal in the realm of human experience, but whose obsession with scientific method frequently placed him at odds with his understanding wife (superbly played by Laura Linney) and research assistants. In presenting Kinsey as a driven social misfit, Condon's film gives Neeson one of his finest roles while revealing the depth of Kinsey's own humanity, and the incalculable benefit his research had on our collective sexual enlightenment. With humor, charm, and intelligence, iKinsey/i shines a light where darkness once prevailed. i--Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com/i
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 i didn't connect with this! November 18, 2008
Expecting this to be a funny and honest film about sexual behaviour I was annoyed to find out that hardly any of it made me laugh! Liam Neeson drove me crazy with his weird, pretentious attitude to sex and his wife didn't entertain me much more. Not even a sexy film. I wouldn't bother!
 Neeson shines again July 27, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A brilliant scientific mind and/or a sexual deviant? However you feel about Kinsey, he opened up a subject that was at the time publicly unapproachable and educated people. One cannot ask more of a scholar.br /Bringing to life a movie solely about a man who initially spent his career studying insects was always going to be a big ask but Liam Neeson once again struts his stuff and consumes his character as does Laura Linney. Peter Sarsgaard provides another excellent support role, and pulls off a rather courageous scene which one doesn't see very often. br /An excellent biography.
 Lacking in subtlety October 22, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Kinsey bears a striking resemblance to Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind: both are biopic's of controversial historical figures whose single minded perserverance of the "truth" in their chosen fields went against the grain of social convention; both are simplistic, overly sentimental accounts designed as much to tug at the audience's heart strings as to paint a balanced portrait of a complex figure.br /br /Liam Neeson is solid in the lead role as Alfred Kinsey, the man who revolutionised what we know of, and how we view, sex in the western world, while Laura Linney is excellent as his loving, long-suffering wife. br /br /The film shows us Kinsey's formative years being brought up by an overbearing and puritanical father, which lead to a certain lack of social grace and empathy for others in later life, when he becomes an expert etomologist. Kinsey's lack of sexual experience lead to a disastrous wedding night, and he realises that there is almost no scientific material on human sexual practice. This, coupled to a realisation that being an expert on wasps isn't likely to lead to widespread scientific acclaim, is the lightbulb moment when he decides his life's work should be to collect data on human sexuality - starting with students of his college class on sex education.br /br /I found the almost universal willingness of Kinsey's subjects to reveal all about their sex lives without so much as blushing, difficult to believe. Bearing in mind this was the conservative 1940s and no such exercise had ever been undertaken, many people would undoubtedly find such personal questions highly embarassing and even immoral. I also found the ease with which Kinsey persuades both his College and the Rockefeller Foundation to support and fund his studies just a little too convenient. As the film goes on to show, Kinsey's work led to a good deal of controversy which I can't believe wasn't there at the outset.br /br /Bill Condon's direction is somewhat simplistic (for instance the montage scenes of talking heads juxtaposed onto a map of the USA) and his characterisation a little shallow, while the script is no more than adequate - some of the dialogue jars, especially the scene of Kinsey's family openly discussing sex at the dinner table, to the disgust of his son.br /br /Neeson is a fine actor, but ultimately Kinsey doesn't give him the opportunity to show much subtlety and nuance in a fairly one-dimensional portait of an important 20th century figure.
The Gospel According to St. Alfred November 3, 2006
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Kinsey may talk frankly about sex, but while it's entertaining enough there's not much there. Bill Condon is too in awe of his subject to seek out the drama in his story: indeed, its surprising just how easy the film makes Kinsey's sex studies seem. With no trouble getting a grant and only Tim Curry's shallow stereotype offering any campus opposition, there's not much in the way of threat or challenge, and the film seems afraid to go to the really dark places aside from one brief scene with William Sadler's proud paedophile. Throughout, Kinsey is presented like Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves and the promise of the early scenes gives way to an old-fashioned biopic that feels so surprisingly like a 50s Scope movie with rude words that I expected a young Gregory Peck to turn up in a grey flannel suit at any moment. Odd, too, to note that Neeson seems to have based his American accent not on Americans but on Anthony Hopkins standard-issue American accent.br /br /Fox's UK DVD includes plentiful deleted scenes but is missing some of the extras from the NTSC 2-disc set.br /
Superb biopic of pioneering sex researcher March 28, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a film rich in excellent acting, being shot in New York the Director was able to cast a plethora of fine stage actors working in NY for short cameo roles. This gives the film a depth and quality that shines as the drama unfolds. pLiam Neelson completely assumes the persona of the somewhat withdrawn, awkward in company but professionally dominant professor. Neelson's vivid portrayal of Kinsey is superb acting, but because the main character is somewhat remote the film looses a little impact. The director intended this to be compensated for by Laura Linney in her equally brilliant portrayal of Kinsey's wife Clara McMillen, but as the drama is firmly focussed on Kinsey and the controversy surrounding him, her role is not sufficiently large to fully achieve the purpose.pThe ten minute long opening title sequence is a master class in conveying a great deal of information in a short period. More superb acting from Lyn Redgrave as the final interviewee in the film, just sit and wonder.pA very fine DVD is rounded off with a long list of deleted scenes and an excellent director's commentary.
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