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Summary: Not pan & scan: Open matted
Review: ... The film was initially shot in the academy ratio (full frame) as a tele-movie. When it's released in theatres it is matted. So the currently-available DVD should be showing the entire frame, not cropped.Still there's no excuse for Artisan's barebone tratement for the title. Not even a trailer is there! We waited so long for it to come out on DVD again and it must be one of the biggest disppointment of the year.
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Summary: Fiorentino's perfomance--
Review: ...There are a few implausible plot events, but overall this film is what the term "riveting" is designed for, although nowadays it is far overused, (sorry, Turbulence just wasn't riveting). Is the second chump stupid? Yeah, of course. But it's nice for a change to see a movie where the main character is 1) evil 2)smart and 3) female. Every other Hollywood movie has the good, male, dumb character outsmarting incredibly stupid people, at least in this case, it's reasonably believable. Plus, it's just nice to see bad things happen to not particularly nice idiots like Peter Berg's character.
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Summary: I Caught the Very Last Moments of This...
Review: ...when I first was exposed to this neo-noir. The part where the lawyer asks "Is there something that could tie her to this crime?" and essentially we next see 'Wendy Kroy', now dressed in green--as in money green--hop into the limo and get rid of the incriminating evidence. One day I decided to see it from the beginning, strictly on the talk that Linda Fiorentino does the femme fatale thing quite well in it. I was not displeased. You, like I had, will find yourself goin' "I don't believe what this lady is saying and doing." A note: that rube, if you remember, pushed himself on her and she did give him plenty of opportunity to bail out (she told him many times that he did not really want to have more to do with her than the no strings attached quickies, but he was apparently on a mission of his own) but, he seemed to ask for the mystery and danger 'Wendy Kroy' was offering and, like all good noirs, when it was far too gone to pull out, he found himself unable to. Watch out for the nuanced editing and story telling. Linda's other fatale moovy, "Jade", is wild, also, but not as well done as this.
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Summary: For The Sake Of Accuracy
Review: Actually, this movie was shot to be released to theaters but the producers got scared and let it get released on pay TV to get the money. It was later released to theaters as originally planned. It is, in fact, a pan-and-scan version of the movie. This bit of idiocy also deprived Linda Fiorentino of an Oscar as well. I would rather see it in widescreen, as it was originally shot.
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Summary: Buyer Beware
Review: Be aware that the Artisan #13217 release is NOT widescreen, but fullscreen (i.e., pan-and-scan).
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Summary: Poor man's BODY HEAT
Review: Despite a high-powered performance by lead actress Linda Fiorentino, THE LAST SEDUCTION was hardly the BODY HEAT of the 1990s. THE LAST SEDUCTION depends too much on Fiorentino taking advantage of others' stupidity. If only it were as easy in real life! One example of this bad writing, for those who have seen it, is the scene where she asks a black man about a certain racial stereotype. Good films hinge on out-smarting people. Not-so-good ones need people to be stupid. THE LAST SEDUCTION might be worth seeing on cable TV; it was made for cable, and that is where it belongs. Save your rental/purchase money for better works.
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Summary: 5 star movie, 1 star DVD
Review: Great movie, I just can't believe they released this in full screen (1.33:1). Boo Hiss Artisan. Also, no extras.
Don't you love it when they list SCENE INDEX and
INTERACTIVE MENUS as "Special Features". Geesh.
Say NO to pan and scan.
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Summary: Fascinating Film Noir
Review: How do you know a movie is good? Maybe when you can't forget it 10 years after seeing it. Wow - Fiorentino truly is the queen of film noir bitches, a tough and self-serving seductress who is as fascinating as a snake coiled to strike. Watching this in the theater, I enjoyed the ride from beginning to end without ever liking or sympathizing with the star. I just liked watching her connive, manipulate and dominate her way to succcess. As a woman, I wondered if many men would like this film, since Fiorentino is intensely intimidating and female without being coneventionally feminine. So far, I've found that younger men seem to like the movie while many older men don't like it. Most of the women I know, including Mom, like it. I think that's because we get a charge out of the oddity of seeing a woman of such power and certainty -- even though she uses those strengths for evil. This is a must-see for anybody who likes film noir.
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Summary: Ditto!
Review: I can only echo the sentiments above. There is so much garbage that has got a DVD release, how can this superb movie not merit one? Fiorentino delivers a brilliant (yes ok sexy!) performance and the whole movie has atmosphere and style, brilliantly evoking classic film noir. We need this DVD!
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Summary: Injustice!
Review: I can only echo the sentiments of other reviewers here. This is absolutely, hands down one of my all-time favourite films. It's bad enough that Linda Fiorentino didn't get an Oscar for her performance in this stylish, black comedy... film noir, but now we cannot even buy it! For the unititiated, it's plot concerns an unrepentingly manipulative, dupliciticious, backstabbing, double-crossing, oversexed, cold, sarcastic, bullying and wickedly intelligent woman, whom we can only love and admire as we watch her stoop to increasingly amoral steps to outsmart her almost-equal-to-the-par conman/doctor hubbie, all the while dragging a hopelessley struck (as in love and dumb) young, small town hick along for the ride. Not for those with soft ears or hearts, I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT THIS FILM IS NOT AVAILABLE ON VHS OR DVD! Please, sate our hunger and let us feed on this awesome paen to the [extremely] bad girl as hero!
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