i be the sort of guy who stay behind to read the closing credit of a movie . i be also the sort of guy who make a note of who the producer and director and screenwriter be . i guess that the difference between the average imdb user and the average movie watcher . the movie watcher be only interested in the genre of the movie and who star in it and very little else . be a regular contributor to this site mean i notice names average movie watcher have little interest in . the downside to this be that a name appear on the credit can prejudice my view of a film take jade for instance which be write by joe eszterhas . do my knowledge of eszterhas mean that i think this movie be very similar in tone to basic instinct whereas it not and any comparison lie in my own biased knowledge of the screenwriter and or be jade genuinely similar to basic instinct . certainly this be a movie that seem to have be produce with the same market trend for erotic thriller that be be make at the time and with the bad one be that one with madonna and willem defoe the plot revolve around a murder and a senior da be bring in and the main suspect be a femme fatale with dubious sexual taste . cue lot of sexual intrigue and sleazy deviant and plot twist and few of which be convince . and be the sort of guy who make note of who the director be i couldn not help notice that william friedkin be the guy who make the french connection a film famous for a car chase . we get to see a car chase here which end in the death of several million chinese . if someone be think of do a bio pic on chairman mao they could do bad than hire friedkin a the director . i will say a couple of good thing about jade . the first be that linda fiorentino be very well cast a trina gavin who just ooze an understated smouldering sexuality and she far well than than sharon stone in basic instinct and a million mile good than madonna in body of evidence . secondly i just love the very haunting quasi celtic song the mystic dream by lorenna mckennitt . but apart from that jade isn not really worth go out of your way to see .