Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

SnoopyStyle Psychiatrist Dr. Isaac Barr (Richard Gere) is treating Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman). His testimony gets Pepe Carrero released angering police detective Huggins (Keith David). Diana's sister Heather Evans (Kim Basinger) comes to his office. They have an affair but her husband Jimmy Evans (Eric Roberts) is a violent Greek gangster.This tries to be a Hitchcockian thriller using every superficial ways. The acting is melodramatically broad. Even the music is reminiscent of the most popular Hitchcock. It feels old and badly overwrought. It's a showy copy of better movies. It would be more compelling to NOT show the killing. It would allow the audience to guess at the truth of the incident and build paranoia which the great master would have done. The movie has to understand that the psychobabble is meaningless to the normal audience. This relies on us believing the jury would buy the psychobabble. For a movie relying on psychiatry, these people are simple-minded. I don't feel for any of these characters. I certainly don't care about Gere's character and by extension, I don't care about this movie.

Leofwine_draca FINAL ANALYSIS sees director Phil Joanou outdoing Brian de Palma in his Hitchcock homages, for this is a Hitchcockian thriller through and through. It's the story of a psychiatrist who becomes involves with a beautiful blonde client, and along the way throws in various scenarios including a courtroom showdown and some high-rise peril too.It's an extraordinarily derivative film, but it manages to be great fun with it, and that's what counts, after all. FINAL ANALYSIS has dated in the same way that most movies from the 1990s have; every scene is overblown and overstylised, and the characters act in hugely unbelievable ways. The writers never let realism or credibility get in the way of another plot twist or suspense-wracked set-piece.Richard Gere is on autopilot here and rather bland with it: there's nothing much to like about his boring character, and he's played the same role (of a guy falling head over heels for a pretty girl) so many times that he seems bored. Kim Basinger is better, really getting her teeth into a different kind of role from the ones she usually plays, but the real stand-outs are the supporting players. Uma Thurman is edgy and burns up the screen, Keith David's broad comic relief really works, and Eric Roberts is incredibly sleazy and frightening as a controlling husband.I was delighted to discover, as I watched, that I had no idea where the story was going. Plot twist developed upon plot twist and I was frequently surprised and shocked by many of them. Of course, it's not really anything that hasn't been done before - and better, too - but it's a nice piece of entertainment for thriller and suspense fans nonetheless.

tieman64 Deliberately lurid, overwrought, and sleazy, Phil Joanou's "Final Analysis" plays best if you pretend it's a black and white psycho-sexual noir from the 1950s; the kind of pulpy B movie routinely rendered classy by guys like Fritz Lang or Alfred Hitchcock ("Rebecca", "Vertigo", "Notorious" etc).Joanou's no Hitchcock, of course, but his compositions are brilliant in the way they emphasize clean lines and geometric shapes, and the film's cinematography, by the legendary Jordan Cronenweth (Blade Runner), is also very special."Final Analysis'" plot is standard of the genre - Richard Gere plays a poor schmuck who may or may not be at the mercy of two sisters (Uma Thurman and Kim Basinger) who may or may not be femme fatales – but the film is aiming for familiarity. It then ends with a bad Hitchcockian cliffhanger, Gere literally hanging from the edge of a lighthouse. Surprisingly, the film's first half is rather restrained, played almost in whispers.7.9/10 – Classy trash, which should appeal to those craving a dose of Hitchcock. Worth one viewing.

gcd70 Painfully slow for the first hour, "Final Analysis" is an 'old-fashioned' thriller that has little of the style that made those film noir flicks of the 40's and 50's so very enjoyable.This picture never manages to grab its audience until half an hour before the end, at which time it reaches such a frenetic pace that it becomes a little too much to cope with. This is not to say that the plot is bad, however the screenplay and direction are both very poor. Most movie-goers will find themselves sleeping through the first half of this one, and then staring in disbelief at the conclusion. Wasted film making.Saturday, March 28, 1992 - Knox District Centre