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Summary: Nicely done thriller with a twist!
Review: Killing Me Softly is one of those movies in which you can only watch it once, but it holds a spot. Alice (Heather Graham) has a ordered life. She works for a company in which she makes discs for games. On one morning, she meets a total stranger Adam (Joseph Fiennes). For that split second, she falls in love. They go back to his place and fool around passionatly. The sex scenes, are pretty good for a direct video release. After that she lives with him, and one day, he asks her to marry him. They get married at his familys own church. They go hiking for their honeymoon (not very romatic). After this happens, Alice gets letters from a person saying "How fare will you let him go"? She begins to question if he really is a sweet man or a violent man. Clues begin to happen through out the movie. Killing me softly, is rated "R" for strong sexualtity and nudity, some violence, and brief language. Their is an UNRATED VERION in which that is the one I have bought. The only thing different between the two versions, and there is more nudity. People say this a Thriller. I think it is a Light Thriller. I would have given it 5 stars, but there wasnt enough thrills. Final Verdict 0-10 Story- 8
Sexuality/Nudity- 10
Thrills/Suspense- between 6 and 7 Average- 8 If you liked this movie I recomend Fatal Attraction, Unfaithful, and Original Sin.
Rating: 
Summary: This is a great B movie
Review: My vote is not based on the movie compared to the movie industry as a whole, It is based on the B movie industry. Which means the budget is low and the expectations are low too.
Heather Graham is great, beautiful, and very revealing so I highly recommend it to Her fans.
The plot is interesting and the acting in general is pretty good. Again you are buying a sexy movie not a blockbuster.
Rating:
Summary: entertaining me softly
Review: not the dynamic or provokative thriller the trailer made it seem. Had it had had the impact as of the trailer, it would have been a breathtaking movie. failing that, I found the story and acting intreauging enough, all the usual small twists in the plot, but its the main 2 actors that make the film very watchable. given it 4 stars as its good for its genre and avoids usual hollywood sweetness at the end.
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Summary: I Liked It!
Review: O K , it WASN"T great but I DID find the actors had chemistry. And I like just about anything with Joseph Fiennes in it. Heather Graham always seems like someone approachable and funny so I like her too. Lots of sex. I guess I saw the unrated version. It did have echos of Hitchcock and DuMaurier. They should have punched up the "who is the Bad Guy" scenario more. Could it be our hero? his Climbing friend? the journalist? the angry Ex? the alleged rape victim? the sister? Really the story would've been better served by less sex and more story but since most of the reviewers here who are complaining only tuned in to see Heather in the buff so I'd think you'd be happy with it!
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Summary: Definitely go for this unrated version!
Review: Oh, man, Heather Graham is hot in this unrated version of "Killing Me Softly." I didn't watch the R-rated one, but it's pretty obvious which scenes are absent in the "lamer" version. Let me just say that while the plot is nothing to get excited about, Graham is every reason to get excited about watching this film. Before watching this I'd never seen her naked in any movies before. Man, she's so hot in the sex scenes. Too bad there aren't more of them, or I'd give this movie a 5-star rating!
The plot revolves around an American girl in London who wants passion in her marriage and ends up almost getting killed. There's a lot of fade-outs which get kind of annoying after a while, but the background music is great and suspenseful. Of course this is not a serious movie; nor is it a world-class thriller. But the acting is adequate, and the film keeps you guessing.
In the end, it's Graham that makes this a very worthwhile movie-watching experience. Just make sure you get this unrated version!
Rating: 
Summary: Kill me quickly ... so I can escape this movie!
Review: Ok, let me start off by saying that any movie where you get to see Heather Graham in the buff is worth at least one star! Now, if she could only act, that would be another star right there. However, Heather's lack of believability is not the biggest shortcoming that this movie has to offer. On the cover of the rental box it claims "Thrill-a-Minute". If they equate this to the thrill you get when having your teeth pulled, then I would have to agree, but otherwise, I don't see where that statement applies here. The movie starts out slow and never really picks up. And, the ending... yeah, like I didn't see that coming! ("So I Married An Axe Murderer" does it better). It's very predictable except for the fact that there isn't any resolution between the two lead characters in the end. That wasn't predicatable, just dumb, very very dumb. They just sort of... walk away. That's what I wish I could have done during this movie.
Rating: 
Summary: Oh, brother.
Review: Okay, I freely admit to being a heterosexual male who heard that this film (unrated) had a sexually willing Heather Graham in it, and that the story was passable (I hoped). Please, would somebody send me a hormone inhibitor, so that the next time I feel the need to gaze upon a gorgeous naked woman I will not be subjected to such predictable movie-fare with virtually zero chemistry between any of the actors. For what it's worth, Heather Graham does look amazing! But all the sex scenes were passionless, staged eye-candy for suckers like me who ended up buying the movie. After watching this I sincerely wanted to watch "Boogie Nights" again to see Heather Graham both act and look incredibly sexy. Near the end of this movie, however, I was nearly laughing at how fake the snow looked. You could actually see where the snow-blowers were blasting the little flakes of "cotton balls?" from behind the trees. Some of the "snow" even got caught in the actors' hair, making them look like they were being attacked by dust bunnies. It was ridiculous. So, why didn't I give this 1 star? Well, some of the individual acting was okay. Just "okay." And I appreciated the feeble attempt at a remake of the Hitchcock classic "Suspicion." Other than that, this movie is thin, plastic, and cleverly targeted an obviously susceptible demographic: me. Do not watch this film.
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Summary: Very Sexy
Review: Okay, I will admit it. The appeal of this movie lies in the positively torrid sex scenes. While some of the scenes are quirky and others even odd, most are enjoyable. You can't really even call them "love" scenes. These are rip your blouse off, knock the dishes off the table, and get down to business scenes.
I can't EVER figure out a whodonit type mystery and, in this movie, I did. The plot does twist and turn, keeping you interested, but the ending is somewhat predictable. The real suspense in this film is when you are wondering when the two lead characters are going to be tearing each others clothes off again.
I would put this DVD in the same genre as Original Sin, Eyes Wide Shut, and 9 1/2 Weeks. If you own any of these others, this will add nicely to your collection.
Rating: 
Summary: it's all about the eye candy!
Review: The things I really enjoyed about this film are the overall production design and look of the film in general. A perfect combo for the popcorn movie enthusiast: beautiful locations (vibrant London and the English countryside), beautiful clothing (Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes are always in ultra chic duds!), and beautiful people in the buff. Chen Kaige has a wonderful visual style (see Yellow Earth, Farewell My Concubine, and his latest, Together among others). He understands the use of colors and landscapes. This film is definitely millions of miles away from his Chinese language films in content but his visual style is still present. A good film to watch for kicks!
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Summary: Love is a passionate mousetrap !
Review: This film is quite gripping in many ways, but particularly so in one : it tricks us into believing something that is nothing but a preconceived idea. Love may be a very strong, sudden and even violent passion. It is shown in all its splendor and beauty. When love becomes passionate it can lead to extreme adventures, and in this film it does, though moderately for the audience not to be unsettled too much. Just enough for the audience to believe that this passion can lead the man, who is becoming suspicious and jealous, to dream of, and to have dreamed of and even performed, a crime or even several to prevent a woman, or maybe several, from going away, abandoning him. So why not another one. The present wife of this man galops into this avenue without even thinking or pondering the issue one single minute : after all it is nothing but the rewriting or the remake of Blue Beard. Panick and fear. And of course she runs into the arms of the real criminal, the one who has really eliminated so many women, out of jealousy of course. But the real end is more than ambiguous. Passion is transient and cannot last very long. Sooner or later it wears out and it does in this case, of course, after such a fright. So the ending is sad though we may feel relieved. Such men who inspire extreme and total love must be rejected and isolated. A sign that our world is not standing on its feet. But the suspense is quite well built if you just try to let yourself be taken along by the story and not to anticipate what may be coming, the end in other words.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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