| Beautiful Creatures | |
| Director: | Bill Eagles |
| Producer: | Simon Donald |
| Starring: | Rachel Weisz Susan Lynch Iain Glen Maurice Roëves Tom Mannion Alex Norton |
| Cinematography: | James Welland |
| Editing: | Jon Gregory David Head |
| Music: | Murray Gold |
| Studio: | DNA Films |
| Distributor: | Universal Pictures International (through United International Pictures[1]) |
| Runtime: | 86 min |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English German |
Beautiful Creatures is a 2000 British crime film directed by Bill Eagles and starring Susan Lynch and Rachel Weisz.[2] Lynch received a British Independent Film Award nomination for her role.
Two women with bad taste in men are thrown together when one accidentally kills the other's boyfriend when attempting to stop a public beating. They attempt to rob the dead man's wealthy brother with a ransom scam, but when a corrupt detective gets involved things go awry.
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 38% based on reviews from 60 critics. The website's critics consensus reads, "Implausible, uneven, and gratuitously violent, this esotrogen-powered crime caper lacks the finesse of Thelma and Louise or Guy Ritchie's work."[3] On Metacritic it has a score of 40% based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[4]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 1.5 out of 4 and wrote: "There is some dark humor in the movie, of the kind where you laugh that you may not gag."[5]