BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

dbdumonteil Borrowing more than a little from Roald Dahl's "the great Switcheroo",without giving the famous writer any credit, AJ Pakula shows his limits;his last movies (this one,"Pelican brief" "presumed innocent" "Devil's own" )will stand as a poor end to a director extraordinaire who wiped clean and drew again the face of the political movie ("Klute " " all the presidents' men" the highly superior "the parallax view" ) a director who took Meryl Streep to peaks of emotion in "Sophie's choice" ..."You are playing safe !you do not take any chances" Spacey complains ,and Mastrantonio repeats almost the same lines.You could have said the same about the director's work whose most "daring" idea ,as I wrote above ,was stolen from Roald Dahl.In spite of the unquestionable talent of the four leads,the movie is actually distastefully bourgeois .Kline writes horrible jingles (the one time he tries his hand at rock music is particularly awful),his daughter is a wiz kid and they live in a desirable mansion.The last picture,which is supposed to show Pakula's sense of humor ,succeeds only in proving that Pakula had no humor at all.Take my advice and do choose Pakula's great movies of the seventies,particularly "the parallax view" ,which is,IMHO, second only to "the Manchurian candidate " ,as far as political movies are concerned.

Predrag The film stars sexy Kevin Kline and Kevin Spacey, both married and recently becoming next door neighbors. Kevin Kine is supposedly in a happy relationship with his wife (played by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, but all hell breaks loose when Kevin Spacey's character sets his new friend up for the murder of his wife so he can collect on a heft insurance policy. Does the criminal justice system in America really let a man who is about to stand trial for a brutal murder out on bail? Do they then let him wander, unsupervised, wherever he pleases? This movie started out great the way it established the growing friendship between two very different couples and then moved into a murder mystery. The acting was first-rate (with the exception of Rebecca Miller can we say boring?) but then the plot defied logic. Further, it is completely unrealistic that a shattered Kevin Kline's wife would have so immediately taken up with Kevin Spacey. By the time the film ended, it felt like a comedy, it was so ridiculous! Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

Lee Eisenberg This is odd. The director and co-star of "Sophie's Choice" teamed up again and made one of the most confusing movies. Kevin Kline and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio play a laid-back couple whose new neighbors (Kevin Spacey and Rebecca Miller) aren't quite what they seem. Spacey's role gives a faint hit of Lester Burnham, but there's no real way to compare "Consenting Adults" with "American Beauty". The movie is just weird. I'm befuddled as to how Alan J. Pakula, the man behind "Klute", "The Parallax View", "All the President's Men" and "Sophie's Choice", could fall down to this. Admittedly, not everyone can have a perfect record, but something as low-quality as this? Just bizarre.

maahaatoyou I'm quite young and watching this film seemed like a bit of a waste of time People might say oh yeah you wont get it but there wasn't a lot to get Bits of it were jumpy n they were the only scary bits unless you don't like blood Both me and my friend found it a bit boring at pointsSome of just made no sense at all, like why would he get back with his wife? The characters seemed a bit basic and most of it was just so bad it was amusing It didn't really have anything going for it, seeing as it wasn't funny, or scary, or interesting. I wouldn't watch it againBut if there's nothing on you could keep yourself entertained trying to work out the little plot it has.