movie mixed scissors scenes 
by dmg
Spanish Judges 2001

STARRING: Vincent D'Onofrio  Valeria Golino
Matthew Lillard  Mark Boone Junior

ACCESS: video/just hit the shelves!

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: a con man needs
help selling a stolen suitcase back to a mobster
so he enlists the aid of a young couple who are
small time criminals. they bring in another gun man to help out and the
con man quickly sows the seeds of distrust between them all. soon it
becomes a question of who will survive to enjoy
the spoils of their work. Valeria Golino is terrific
as Jamie, the most physical member of the group whose favorite killing
method is poison.

SCISSORS SCENE:the group has a locked
suitcase filled with money and their helper named Piece has gone to get
a drill to force
it open. in his absence Jamie has decided to
kill him. she puts on a pair of transparent
gloves and opens a medicine cabinet. she dabs
some chemicals onto a piece of white cloth.
as Piece returns the con man and Max, Jamie's
boyfriend, act as if nothing is wrong. Jamie comes into the room with a
smile on her face and the poisoned cloth behind her back. Piece
is puzzled by their strange demeanor but he
turns away friom her to drill open the case. just
as she is about to pounce on his back he turns
around to her and she backs off and smiles
innocently. when he turns away and gets on one knee to work on the case
she jumps on his
back and hold the poisoned cloth over his mouth and nose. he groans,
stands up and
spins around, trying to throw her off, but she has scissored her legs
tightly around his body
preventing his escape. he reaches for his gun but the con man removes it
from his holster. he
is wheezing and gasping now as he bangs against several objects in the
room. as they both fall to the rug he finally escapes her grip 
from behind and they wrestle facing each other.
despite a big size advantage he is helpless as
she keeps the rag pressed against his nose and mouth. finally he sinks
to all fours and she
mounts his back, straddling him with her legs
and holding one hand against the back of his 
head, pressing his face in to the cloth she is
holding in her other hand. as he groans his last she whispers to him in
her delicate French accent, "die, die." after he succumbs she rolls off
of him and says to her two stunned male accomplices, "thanks for the
help, boys."

POSITIVES: great setup, great looking woman
and terrific acting by everyone involved. she
actually seemed to know how to wrestle. in
the beginning of the movie she administers a
one sided butt kicking to the con man that included some genuine
wrestling holds. 

NEGATIVES: the lighting is only so so. the scissors is not used to
squeeze him but to
hold him in place as she murders him. (see
From Dusk Til Dawn for a similar motif)

OVERALL RATING: **