Rating: 
Summary: Passable erotic thriller!
Review: "CSI" player Gary Dourdan stars as a lawyer whose idea to "spice up" his marriage with another female bedmate turns into a nightmare of epic proportions. Made on a shoestring budget (the boom mike makes an un-credited appearance at least twice), the film benefits from a swiftly moving story, credible acting, and Atlanta locations.Fans of "Unfaithful", "Fatal Attraction", and 60's Ross Hunter films will find something to love (or loathe) about this flick.
Rating:
Summary: Passable erotic thriller!
Review: "CSI" player Gary Dourdan stars as a lawyer whose idea to "spice up" his marriage with another female bedmate turns into a nightmare of epic proportions. Made on a shoestring budget (the boom mike makes an un-credited appearance at least twice), the film benefits from a swiftly moving story, credible acting, and Atlanta locations. Fans of "Unfaithful", "Fatal Attraction", and 60's Ross Hunter films will find something to love (or loathe) about this flick.
Rating:
Summary: A sexual thriller that fails on both parts of the equation
Review: "Trois" aspires to the feel of soft-core porn, albeit without the sort of explicit nudity that devotes of the genre would hope to see. It also wants to be something of a thriller, which is another major regard in which this 2000 film fails, because I pretty much saw everything coming and it is hard to be shocked when you are not surprised. But you know how it is; you see an interesting trailer, check out a movie, and wish you had stopped with the trailer.
Jermaine Davis (Gary Dourdan) has a promising career as a lawyer and his wife Jasmine (Kenya Moore) has a great body. But is Jermaine happy? No he is not and because he is also stupid it is a dangerous combination. Jermaine dreams of a ménage-a-trois with his wife and another woman. He does not have a specific woman in mind, but one of his co-workers (Soloman K. Smith), knows of a woman who will fit the bill named Jade (Gretchen Palmer). Apparently she fits the bill because her name begins with a "J" as well. However, first Jermaine has to get Jasmine to agree. His argument to persuade his wife to let another woman into their bed? That there is nothing they should not be able to experience and that he is only trying to take their relationship to the next level.
Now, think about this particular line of argument without all the blood rushing to certain parts of the body and if you were Jasmine you would have to be very afraid. How many levels does her husband want to take her to and how long does it take you to come up with a long list of things that she would not want to experience? When Jasmine confides to a friend that this is what her husband wants to do, her friend admits that she did something similar once upon a time and now has to fight off her husband's desire to do something "worse." Not long afterwards, Jasmine agrees to do what Jermaine wants. There are many possible reasons why she agrees, but the most important one is clearly that the movie has to fulfill the promise of its title.
So it happens. "Trois" does not dwell on the big moment; you have a sense for what they are doing and it appears the experience is not solely for Jermaine's benefit, so the ambiguity of the moment is preserved. But then the three of them have to live with it, and that proves to be more difficult than any of them would have thought. Both Jermaine and Jasmine are worried that the other one is still seeing Jade, but that is before weird things start happening and we get to the "Fatal Attraction" part of the proceedings.
That development is going to be unexpected by many viewers and it certainly raises some interesting questions about the moral lesson to be drawn from the story. The filmmakers here are only working with a budget of $200,000 and while the production values reflect the skimpy budget they are trying for something more complicated in terms of the story. But the script, direction, and acting are all barely competent and despite the lurid subject matter the whole thing is just way too tame. You can get some good laughs out of this film, but you know that was not the intent of this film, which does try to deal with some serious subjects.
If the characters are not stereotypical, which is certainly a debatable point, the relationships certainly are. The most sympathetic character is Jade, but the fact that she demands $1000 from Jermaine so that she can pay for her lawyer in a custody fight over her son pretty much shows how twisted things get in this film. Jasmine does things she knows are wrong and then wonders why it is destroying her marriage while Jermaine is just too stupid to see that he is destroying his marriage before, during, or after it happens. In the end I just wish that in addition to this being a better movie that the moral of "Trois" was something more proscriptive.
Rating:
Summary: Passable erotic thriller!
Review: "CSI" player Gary Dourdan stars as a lawyer whose idea to "spice up" his marriage with another female bedmate turns into a nightmare of epic proportions. Made on a shoestring budget (the boom mike makes an un-credited appearance at least twice), the film benefits from tight editing, credible acting, and Atlanta locations. Fans of "Unfaithful", "Fatal Attraction", and 60's Ross Hunter films will find something to love (or loathe) about this flick.
Rating:
Summary: Passable erotic thriller!
Review: "CSI" player Gary Dourdan stars as a lawyer whose idea to "spice up" his marriage with another female bedmate turns into a nightmare of epic proportions. Made on a shoestring budget (the boom mike makes an un-credited appearance at least twice), the film benefits from tight editing, credible acting, and Atlanta locations. Fans of "Unfaithful", "Fatal Attraction", and 60's Ross Hunter films will find something to love (or loathe) about this flick.
Rating:
Summary: a dream made me buy the film
Review: A funny thing happen on my way to buying the movie Trois. I had heard about the film in 2000, in some black men's magazine. I was going to buy it but I forgot about it. Then on Fri, Jan. 11 I had a dream about me and my girlfriend having a menage a trois. I never thought about that before honest. Then on Sat. I go downtown shopping and guess what I find at the music store. "Trois" and the last copy no less. I had to buy it. Now for the movie, overall I give it a C. But for the surpise ending and neatly connecting all the dots at the end I give it a B. Warning there is NO T&A or Catfighting in the film, which is one of the main reasons I thougth about buying it 2 years ago. Ms. Moore can not act but I give her a B for effort. Ms. Palmer excellent as always. Mr. Dourdan a surpisingly weak and forced performance. This movie is a classic Cinamax soft, real, REAL soft porn. Also this movie is full of chesee. But I would definatly watch this my lady, it is suggestive enough in the begining to get your love one in the mood. But I would pass on the menage a trois after seeing this flick especially if your're in a serios relationship.
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Summary: Worth taking the time to see
Review: At first, I was somewhat of a skeptic. I was afraid that this movie was going to be about nothing more than just "SEX". When you hear men on TV Shows talk about how great it would be to have a threesome I thought, "oh great, another Springer moment"; however, this movie is just the opposite. I saw this movie as an educational experience. Sure, some people may find being with two people as erotic (and time consuming), but they never think about what may happen after that one-night of carefree sex has been committed. Would you find the experience exciting or just another note to chalk up on your "I've learned from my mistakes, and I'll never do that again" list? This is a must see movie for anyone who doesn't take the time to answer that one question that lingers in the back of our minds, "What will happen once it's all said and done"? The ending is a shocker, but it makes you think.
Rating:
Summary: not great but far from terrible
Review: fans of adrian lyne's erotic thrillers or dramas might find themselves whispering "deja vu" in each other's ears while watching this indie film. trois simply isn't a bad movie but doesn't appear to bring anything new to the table of indie films and/ or psychological thrillers with soft erotic overtones. as far as the plot goes, the film manages to offer us a little dose of suspense here or there and doesn't completely give away it's surprises but unfortunately this cannot redeem the film entirely. the acting here is decent enough but gretchen palmer gives the most promising performance by far and i think she has potential to do some great acting in the near future. the erotic scenes are suggestive enough but never to the level of a soft core flick so i fail to see why the film manages to obtain an nc-17 rating. furthermore, there is very little nudity aside from viewing the lead actor's rear end in the earlier segments of the film. there is also an alternate ending here on dvd which i think they should've kept in place as it does build a bit more suspense than the original ending. for a more sensual and intriguing thriller however, you may wish to never talk to strangers which showcases talent from rebecca demornay and antonio banderas. plan on renting this though if the reviews here peak some interest before throwing down hard earned money on the dvd.
Rating: 
Summary: Don't waste the money
Review: Good intent, poor execution. I bought this dvd ONLY because I LOVE Gary Dourdan. It could have been better, but it's an independent film, so I give it an A for effort. The overall acting is shaky at best. More care is taken to film the sex scene itself, than any other part of the movie. If the same attention to detail and lighting had been taken throughout the film, I would have given it a much better rating.
Rating: 
Summary: Not what I expected, But WOW!
Review: I bought this DVD in hope of a total T&A display. I got anything but that. There is no I repeat no T&A in this film. Why it's NC-17 I will never know. But the film is definetly worth watching and owning. The ending was fantastic. I never would have guessed. And neither will you.
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