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Summary: only the good parts
Review: I honestly have to say that I didn't even watch the whole movie. Basically, I heard that it was really bad and fast forwarded through the whole DVD till I found the good parts, those being the parts where Heather Graham gets naked. Based on this material, I would have to say that the movie was quite excellent and fulfilled all my expectations. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Just kill me softly
Review: I just see it till today. one word to say for this movie is - perfect. I LOVE this kinda movie so much!!!
The first i wanna say is that the actress Heather Graham who act Alice in the movie is soooooo perfect. it's too worth to buy this DVD even just for this point.
I don't know why i just feeling this moive is a little same with Basic Instinct, 1992 vs 2002. ten years past. but the movie same. i don't know what should we cheers up for these yrs?
This is the 1st time i watch this movie, preety good. i do sure i will see it again times later.Finally, u should watch it.Heather Graham in this movie is fantastic!!! If u wanna discuss with me about this movie. drop me a mail :)
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Summary: Heather is wonderful!
Review: I love Heather Graham acting, and in this film, though not excellent, she has a very good performance. The plot is interesting, the erotic scenes are wonderful. Heather is getting better in every film, and this is not the exception.
The film establishes a sexual obsession between the couple; however, she's naive, innocent, looking for new sexual experiencies; he's got a past, unkonwn, with many secrets. Among them is his sister, who seems to be a lesbian, but the outcome is different. Most characters are weird, and this inserts a kind of suspense in the film.
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Summary: If you liked the book, don't even rent this film!
Review: I really enjoyed the book and so was eager to see it brought to life on the screen, despite my reservations about the lead actress. It is very clear that the only reason Heather Graham was cast in this role (or in anything) is because she has no problem with complete nudity and kinky sex scenes. In the book, Alice (who was changed from British to transplanted American in the film)tells the story of her obsessive love/lust for Adam in a very convincing way. In the film, Alice just looks like a silly girl looking for a good time. Their first encounter, which was so intense and sexy in the book, left me wondering, why are they throwing themselves at each other; I saw no lust or obsession in Alice. There is absolutely no chemistry between her and Fiennes. She (Graham)giggles at inappropriate times, and looks very lighthearted and is far removed from the dark nature of the story. He's brooding and mysterious, and brings Adam to life very successfully, true to the book; Graham's acting is miles away from the Alice in the book: obsessed, and torn between love and fear. But the most upsetting part of the film was the end: it was entirely different from the book! What's with that? It made sense in the movie, but they should have just called it something else and not even used any material from the book. In my opinion, the full novel could have been put into a screenplay and been much more successful. Also, Natasha McElhone should have played the lead, and Graham should have been a bit player. McElhone has the right intensity for the real (novel) Alice. What a disappointment, and since I saw the rated version, I didn't even get the good sex scenes!! p.s. The cinematography and set location were beautiful and the only reason I gave this ANY stars at all!!
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Summary: Losing Me Quickly
Review: I really wanted to like this movie: I love the cast and location and I hadn't seen a really good "erotic thriller" in a long time. In fact, I don't know if I've ever seen a truly great erotic thriller. BASIC INSTINCT and other studio attempts come off as glossy, dense and pretentious and the late-night cable TV B-movies barely qualify as movies.
But I wasn't even sure WHAT I was watching at different points with KILLING ME SOFTLY. I wanted to give it more stars just based on Joseph Fiennes and Natascha McElhorne, but I wouldn't want to mislead anyone that this was a good movie Just because this time around it's beautiful people in a movie, we still need some characters here. But by then, the mystery/thriller plot kicks in: has Graham rushed into a marriage with a sullen thrill-seeker or a heartless killer? I'd pretty much figured out what was really going on so early on that, when the truth was revealed, I had to remember, "Oh, that's right--I'd already figured it out."
The hot "passion" between this couple cools to make way for the plot instead of becoming part of it. What if Fiennes' sex gets riskier as Graham's suspicion grows? The same irresponsible passion that got Graham into this mess now also clouds her ability to find out the truth.
I don't know how the novel read, but the characters fall into the grooves of the "erotic thriller plotline."
Maybe I'm asking too much. I know this cast deserved better. Most of it's so well filmed that you forget you're watching a storyline normally played out with titles like NIGHT EYES 4 on "Skin-a-max" at 2:00am.
The one positive thing I can definitely say about this movie: Heather Graham looks great naked.
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Summary: Thriller coupled with sensuality = Killing me softly
Review: I'm so surprised so few people have heard about this film. It is a nice relief from action and war films. For me it was a great thriller coupled with well orchestrated sexual scenes ending with somewhat of a twist. I would highly recommend it for those movie fans who can't resist a who did it movie and some sexual fantasy.
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Summary: passionate affair and suspicion
Review: in a movie close to hitchcok's style, blond and beautiful heather graham shows all her talent and charm in a movie where love and suspense are the two main ingredients
Falling in love and having wild sex with a complete stranger is not something the heroine would have thought she could do, while living with her boy friend for years. But the attraction is too strong and irresistible.
She later has doubts about the man she has fallen in love with
There are some hot love scenes necessary to the understanding of the plot and the movie is breathtaking
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Summary: Question need answer.
Review: Is there any body known the soundtrack to this movie? Is it in any of Patrick Doyle's work collection?
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Summary: Could be worth watching, with the right viewer's attitude.
Review: It is not like any of Chen Kaige's other work. Heather Graham is a bad actress. The attraction between the leads is unconvincing. Some of the lines the characters take so seriously that it's funny. So, yes, if you approach this with the right attitude (i.e., it's not an erotic thriller--it's a comedy), you'll thoroughly enjoy it. It borders on camp in the Showgirls and Flash Gordon tradition. Otherwise, stay away--far, far away. There is a lot of sex, but it's not really that explicit, and it's definitely not exciting. Heather Graham's moans are exaggerated and phony. The humping is unconvincing. (...)
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Summary: BORING ME HEAVILY
Review: It's a pity that such a brilliant screenplay should've been thrown to such a thud ending. The movie starts with an amazing pace, the cinematography plush with its Londonscapes, and each scene pregnant with that suspenseful tension (both sexual and otherwise) -- we can sense that behind those hyperactive bedsheets something is afoot as a mountaineer falls in passionate love with a citygirl web designer. They marry in a couple of days and bells are achiming, birds are afluttering etc etc, until the woman receives an anonymous note "It was a mistake to marry him." Everything in the film, up until the last 15 minutes is nail-biting (although much more has been bitten on the screen I may as well add.) But then, we get treated to an abysmal gyp: the person behind the whole intrigue and suspense was THE most predictable one in the entire plot, for THE most predictable (and doozy) reason conceivable. The voyeurism here borders almost on soft-porn, eye-in-the-hole viewers take note. The screenplay is something to use in film schools, marvellous. The cinematography is stupendous. But the writer should've been fired before he ruined it all. 2/5 material, 1 point each for Fiennes and Graham, who will definitely be on my watch-list from now on! But I hope they'll quickly scoot past this utter tripe of a B-grade film.
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