Reviews

First off, I was quite surprised to see the cinema so full for this movie, even on opening weekend. I guess not that many movies for women in their 30's plus exist these days!

I expected this movie, as I'm sure many people did, to be a Fatal Attraction but with the genders switched around.

I was pleasantly surprised and shocked by it NOT being what I expected, and I definitely enjoyed it alot more than Fatal Attraction.

The summary of this movie is that Diane Lane's character starts cheating on her husband (Richard Gere) with a beautiful French man(Olivier Martinez). Everything else should be left for surprise.

The pacing of this movie is perfect. We got a sense of Connie and Edward's home life before she met the dashing Paul. They have a darling son, Charlie, who adds alot of humour to the movie, but in a non precocious way. After the affair starts we see Connie's feelings range from excitement to complete disgust with herself. And of course Edward inevitably finds out. His reaction is interesting, to say the least, and perhaps very honest.

The acting is great, especially from Diane Lane. The sex scenes are pretty raunchy, and made me uncomfortable at certain points, but it's interesting to see how different sex with the lover and sex with the husband were.

At the end of this movie I didn't feel cheated or robbed with some contrived ending (although others may argue differently). This film dealt with how being in an affair must feel, and how finding out you're being cheated on could make your react in uncharacteristic ways.

As a movie critic said, this movie will indeed make you never have an affair!

I went to see this movie on opening night, and despite the fact that the guy in front of me puked thus leaving the cinema smelling foul, I still enjoyed this movie immensely.

From the beginning this movie had me engrossed in the storyline: Ten years ago a bank robbery took place where 5 guys stole a huge red diamond, but two of them ran of with the diamond. Skip forward ten years, psychiatrist Nathan Conrad (Michael Douglas) is preparing for Thanksgiving with his daughter and wife (Famke Janssen), when he is called in to review a new patient, Elizabeth (Brittany Murphy). Elizabeth has some serious issues. Upon the kidnapping of his daughter, Conrad discovers that Elizabeth is hiding something the kidnappers want, and it's up to Conrad to get this information from her. In all this Det. Cassidy (Jennifer Espisoto) tries to solve a murder somehow related to the kidnapping.

I found the acting in this movie to be quite good. The script for the daughter was a bit precocious... I do not know any 8 year old who actually talks like that, she did however do well with what was given to her. Oddly enough Famke Janssen and Michael Douglas did have good chemistry together, but I think it was more as parents than as husband and wife. Murphy did well with what was given to her, particularly in the scenes before Conrad approaches her about the hidden info. Jennifer Espisoto shone in her role as Det. Cassidy, taking a 'bimbo' name and making the character a strong woman instead.

The end left me feeling somewhat justified although they could have been more clear on what happened to Elizabeth.

Overall an enjoyable movie. 8/10.

PS. First post, so sorry if it wasn't up to standard:)