Man of Her Dreams

This film was very good with much suspense through out. I do not understand why the movie has a 5.2 user rating. It was very entertaining and kept me at the edge of my seat. I saw this on the cable network, FX and for a Cable TV movie. this movie was better than most. It kept my attention and since I watched it late at night while laying on the couch at times and that I did not fall asleep that is quite an accomplishment. Although it is predictable and not quite in the same league as "What Lies Beneath", I would definitely recommend this movie to my friends and family.

This movie is so empty and vacuous it's hard even to comment.

"Man..."/"Fiance" falls into the suspense---you wish---psycho serial killer genre. Everything suffers from terminal malnutrition: the plot, the dialogue, the direction, the acting, the score, not to mention each of its two titles ("The Fiance"??? Really!). The actors are pros but have absolutely nothing to work with nor any apparent direction. The characters connect neither to each other nor to the plot, the bones of which have no meat on them and barely connect to each other. No effort is wasted on creating or building tension; when someone gets killed, it's a non-event.

One minimal plus: a couple of slightly interesting outdoor locations. (Ha! Now you can leave or go back to sleep.)

Pathetic!

Antique dealer Faith Moore (Lysette Anthony) suspects that her husband is having an affair.

Enter Walter (William R. Moses) who appears at the antique shop just in time to lend an understanding ear. In no time, Faith is in the sack with this all-too-empathetic Romeo. Afterward, Faith is guilt-ridden and flees back home to wallow in her agony.

When Faith finds out that she was wrong about her husband, the sun shines brighter and marital bliss rekindles.

Oh no!

It turns out that old Walter has a few problems of a psychological nature, including his being a homicidal psychopath!

Let the stalking begin.

Walter takes care of Faith's nosey neighbor right away. Then, Faith's best friend gets a little too snoopy. I think you can see where this is going.

MAN OF HER DREAMS (aka: FIANCE) is sort of like FATAL ATTRACTION only with the principal roles reversed. As such, it's not a bad thriller.

THE MORAL OF THE STORY: Never trust a man who actually enjoys going antiquing!...

This movie kept my attention all the way through, waiting to see what would happen. The only problem is that there wasn't any real lesson to be learned here, other than "don't have an affair", which should hardly need saying. What would have earned a higher score from me would have been to showcase some sort of syndrome or personality disorder and illustrate something about that. As it is, the villain doesn't seem to match anything. He acts like a psychopath some of the time, but shows some emotions which appear genuine at other times (and they occur when he's alone, so it isn't that he's faking them; he had no audience). He just appears to be a semi-generic Really Messed Up Person.

The acting is pretty good and the entire production is sufficient for a low-budget psycho-thriller. If you just need something to watch for an hour and a half, this will do. Just don't expect anything terribly deep from it in the end.

this movie sucks. don't waste your time or brain cells. Its like a souped up love story version of "the shield." and to think i could have been studying.

Each character is dry and undeveloped. Walter is creepy, but so is Faith, so their relationship would seem to make sense, but instead these horrible performers seem to destroy any trace of chemistry they might have had. The dialogue sucks, the script looks like its a first draft, and the direction... well i wasn't able to find any.

This movie gets an F. but the character Richard's hair gets an A.

Titanic was a better affair story than this.