Kenzie Leigh

Decent movie made almost unbearable by the hideously poor decision to cast Connie Nielsen and as much I hate to say it - Rosalyn Sanchez. They are abysmally directed and overact pretty much every thing they do. Travolta does his best with a very poorly written script. They should remake this but with some serious rewrites; setting it with the more identifiable green berets or navy seals (I mean - army rangers?? really?) and losing the token females who just destroy some otherwise stellar acting. Plot wise - this things has more holes than a crotcheted beanie. One of those terrible, terrible scripts that was written by someone who clearly refused to let anyone do any desperately needed rewrites. This is the kind of movie that makes you go "ahhh so THAT'S why studio execs always get involved. The writer definitely thought they were unbelievably clever - but they absolute were not.

"I've got a great idea for a movie!! Guy and woman have fleeting one night stand then one goes crazy and tries to destroy the family of the other because they can't let go!!" "You mean like Fatal Attraction?" "No, the other person goes crazy but it's the GUY!!" "So, exactly like Fatal attraction just not Glenn Close losing it?" "Noo- because the guy and woman in this are black!!" "So you mean exactly the same as Fatal Attraction in every way except the roles are reversed and the leads are black...." "No - it's not like Fatal Attraction - even the name is different!!" "Oh really? What's it called?" "Are you ready? Fatal Affair!!!"

Premise basically appears to be a middle aged woman joins a fight club filled with 20 year old women. It's unclear whether or not we are expected to believe the old chick is in her 20s or not - but it looks very much like that's what they were hoping for. It doesn't work. All that actually happens is you spend the entire movie hoping for a lesbian scene that never happens - the only thing that could possibly have saved this was that - they don't do it. Shame. Don't get me wrong - the old chick would not have needed to be in the lesbian scene - that would be awful - but plenty of hot twenty somethings....missed opportunity. The movie does start off kinda strong - but then they clearly start running out of ways to make it NOT Fight Club and so it just gets silly and contrived and sooo much of it makes absolutely no sense. Characters are introduced but then never resolved (spoiler alert - she doesn't fight any of the three baddie chicks...) and randomly introduced minor characters suddenly spend 13 seconds playing major parts (the judge) Basically - you can tell it was written by a guy and directed by another guy.... it's worth watching if you have nothing else to do...like - take up crocheting first...

utterly compelling from start to finish. Jeremy Renner is really outrageously good in this. My only criticism is that I would have preferred his role to have gone to a Native American rather than having the "white knight" thing going on. The plot is riveting and compelling but the unpredictability does rely exclusively on not sharing knowledge with the audience so in that respect - it's not exactly a "whodunnit" kinda movie. The movie is not without some very serious plot holes - but it is a movie after all and there's little you can do about that. Still, it's one of the best movies I have seen for quite a while. Definitely worth a night in with a mug of cocoa. The casting is SUPERB. The casting director nailed every single part soooo fricking well. Seriously - not a single trace of bad acting from anyone and it's impossible to say any one actor (including the bit parts) stole the show - everyone was equally brilliant. Gun to my head -James Jordan's performance was the absolute best - but honestly - everyone performs so well in this insanely well directed movie. 50% of our planet are below average intelligence - so not surprised that this doesn't have a solid 5 stars everywhere.

The answer to the question "How much worse can Wesley Snipes' career actually get?"

I have to confess - i was interested in this movie until I saw Paul verhoeven directed it. I thought he was banned from making films after making one of the worst movies of all time "Showgirls"? Automatic skip for me as soon as I see his name.....

an okay movie absent the extremely obvious flaw in that the way to determine who the bank robbers are is to separate each person - have them tell you exactly what they were wearing; match up the clothes to the people and those who can't match clothing to themselves are the bank robbers... other than that - decent movie.

decent movie marred only by Tim Burton's hideously obvious pantyhosed female feet fetish

If you don't mind the 60s and 70s trend of making school/university movies with a cast of people in their 20s through late 30s attempting to pass as 18-22 yr olds - then you've cleared the first hurdle into appreciating the genius of Jerry Lewis. The movie itself is entertaining in a way that would not pass muster with anyone born from 1990 on. Visually - its great work for the 60s - but it contains extremely obvious elements that date it such as the extraordinarily vibrant primary colors and even the more subtly things like Stella wearing tights with every outfit in the Professor's fantasy scene (an oddity of conservative opinion in the 60s and 70s was that you could go as short as you liked with skirts, shorts, swimsuits and slits on dresses - as long as the actress wore tights - best example of this being Daisy Duke of course), and of course the thoroughly rampant misogyny. No one really seemed to object to thoroughly inappropriate teacher/student relationships back then - I think you'd be hard pushed to represent this in any movie today. Jerry Lewis is exceptional but I fear he is lost on current generations who lack the mental maturity to appreciate anything that isn't 99.9% CGI. The plot is decent - if a little labored (like many of the scenes unfortunately) and there's only so far you can take the Jekyll and Hyde motif - and it's a well directed, well edited and well acted piece of cinema. I have a personal dislike bordering on hatred of Jazz music - and it heavily underpins this movie - so I find it hard to suffer through these days. There is some extremely unnecessary unexplained breaking of the fourth wall that while innocuous enough - does kinda have one going "huh?" several times. All in all, a decent movie - but nothing that was ever gonna gain any plaudits.