TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Opinion02122 The outline for this movie is almost a duplicate of Play Misty for Me. It starts with a one night stand with no strings attached, and turned into the same Fatal Attraction, even down to the crazed girl coming face to face with the real love of the male's life and the attack. The differences are there, too. The male in this case is married, while the other is just trying for a committed relationship. They have different jobs, live on the opposite coast, etc. This movie was MUCH better done than Play Misty, and they are many years apart so most people probably don't even see the similarities.

Bodo FATAL ATTRACTION is a psychological thriller about the perfect family gone wrong, about one simple affair capable of destroying lives. Glenn Close does well as the psychopathic love affair. She and the entire cast deliver solid performances. The story keeps you going and the ending is truly suspenseful.However, FATAL ATTRACTION is a long haul away from being a masterpiece. The cinematography is quite generic. Dialogues are shot in long shot / re-shot sequences. Everything is set in rather dull environments: office rooms and bleak city apartments. However, it is the movie's pacing that is its biggest downfall. While FATAL ATTRACTION does pick up speed towards the end, the first half felt like a drag. I'm a fan of slow movies, but here the pace just wasn't justified. For such a pace, you need more than just generic archetypes such as "the perfect wife" and "the loving husband". The characters don't go much beyond what we've (since then) seen in many many movies.How has FATAL ATTRACTION aged? Yes, there's violence and sex that at the time must have been shocking... but audiences today are accustomed to more extreme stuff and may be bored by this late 80's flick. I'm not saying they should've turned this into a gory slasher movie ... but the movie ain't all that deep to really justify the "psycho" in "psychothriller".The other thing that hasn't aged so well is the 80's synth tunes... which just feel cheesy to modern audiences! ;-)

Dave This is a psychological thriller that's set in New York. A middle-class married man has casual sex with a woman who has borderline personality disorder. When he ends the fling, she reacts by stalking him. I can't praise this film enough - nor can I find any faults in it. The writing, acting, directing etc. are excellent. This is what a thriller should be like - why isn't it regarded as one of the all-time greats? I can't understand why it missed out on Academy Awards, nor why critics insist that slow, boring films like Vertigo are better.

deickos Watching this movie always feels like a documentary explaining laws of nature. It is a surprise for me how things in real world do not end like that. I don't feel the Glenn Close character is the villain but the victim. I don't see this movie as a thriller but as something 99% possible and probable.