SummaryA bright assistant D.A. investigates a gruesome hatchet murder and hides a clue he found at the crime scene. Under professional threats and an attempt on his life, he goes on heartbroken because evidence point to the woman he still loves.
Directed By:William Friedkin
Written By:Joe Eszterhas
Jade
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
33
User score
Generally Favorable
7.7
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
33
4% Positive
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1 Review
44% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
52% Negative
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
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Jade, like many another recent erotic or techno thriller, is packed with talent, polished and technically dazzling. But, daring as it might seem in its sexual content and exposure of bad behavior among the mighty, it's curiously soft at conveying what these characters really believe. [13 Oct 1995, p.J2]
50
The latest offering from the serial scribe who scripted Showgirls has another femme with an overactive libido and not much else. [13 Oct 1995]
User score
Generally Favorable
7.7
87% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
7% Mixed
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Aug 21, 2023
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Aug 7, 2023
8
An intense thriller from the director of the exorcist, Jade is a very underrated 90's gem with a talented cast.
42
Jade is another thriller where convenient shocks substitute for clues and motives come from the groin, not the mind. [13 Oct 1995, p.6]
38
Jade recalls Sliver (even before its fizzled finale) by reuniting Eszterhas with producer Robert Evans, the faded genius and ill-pegged comeback producer who fared better with last year's lively autobiography The Kid Stays in the Picture. Judging from his last two movies, the aging kid stays on the D-list, too.
25
Pretentious, boring, and consistently uninvolving, this effort by producer Robert Evans and director William Friedkin to make comebacks with an incoherent Joe Eszterhas script simply won't wash.
25
For a movie that's supposed to be sex-driven, Jade has the sexual energy of a dead battery. [13 Oct 1995, p.42]
20
Watching Jade is such a hollow experience it’s hard to work up the energy to dismiss it. A movie where the car chases have more personality than the people, its monotone acting and recycled plot make one wonder, not for the first time, how something this tired ever got made.
Jul 14, 2025
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Voici une bonne grosse bouse, une sorte de Basic Instinct de pacotille, un avatar bien tarte du célèbre film, une mauvaise variation sur le même thème (écrit pourtant par le même scénariste) avec une distribution dépassée par les évènements… ou bien la grande nullité du script ! On a donc un meurtre très brutal et de mauvais goût, des bonnasses suspectes (dont Linda Fiorentino qui montre un peu son cul, c’est du classique), une vague histoire de coucherie et des flics à la masse… Malgré le métrage d’une longueur raisonnable, l’ensemble se traîne comme un hamster mort qui s’est coincé dans les barreaux de sa cage après un drift à fond les ballons dans sa roue de l’enfer (il avait pris de la cocaïne). C’est en effet tellement mou et plat qu’on se croirait devant une espèce de mauvais téléfilm à la godille, tartiné par des branques et joué par des baltringues : c’est dire l’immense étendue des dégâts ! d’ailleurs, même en avance rapide, on lâche l’affaire très, très vite… quelle putain de nullité à deux de tension !!
Production Company:
- Paramount Pictures
- Robert Evans Company
Release Date:Oct 13, 1995
Duration:1 h 35 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Some women have secret fantasies. Some women have secret lives.
Awards
Razzie Awards
• 2 Nominations




























