Sharon Stone goes cold in this botched thiller-maybe from the effort of pretending that her character, a beauteous book editor, would fall for the preening young computer wizard played by the vacant-and-proud-of-it William Baldwin.

All is not lost, finding mood to the offering that's initially appealing, as Noyce attempts to craft something seductive and disturbing with this take on voyeurism. It has its moments before it completely falls apart.

The cast may have been high-profile, but Sliver is no great work of art.

Bogged down by dialogue by the vaunted Joe Eszterhas that utterly fails in its attempts at chic Manhattan wit, Sliver proceeds at an escargot pace to unfold the creepy happenings.